"You went to the town line and tried to cross it. What happened?" Oddly, Ianto set down his coffee and fished a pen and small note pad to start jotting things down with. "Don't worry about sounding silly, either. It's not silly. It's .. odd."
An idea startled to tickle at his brain, too. He could use one of the people who just turned up to help him delineate the actual town boundaries.