Sometimes being oblivious in certain situations can be a blessing, but also-

"I don't have anywhere else I have to be, unless someone needs help."

It's not any sort of deflection, just a simple matter of fact. So of course it was no trouble to wait and see if Parsee was pulled back. He's considered the idea of picking a place like others have, but there are plenty of safer places he can pop into if he needs to sleep or the weather gets bad.

Years is theoretically a long time, though he's acquainted with how time can lose its meaning when you're tied to one place.

"It's good that nothing bad happened."