"Back home? No way. That would be an easy way for the monsters to find me. Thankfully, there aren't any monsters here." At least, if there were, they were only here for a few days and then disappeared as quickly as they'd appeared.
"But things are different here. And it's kind of nice to be able to be open about stuff that has to be a secret back home."
He should really stop calling it home. He'd never go back there, at least not alive.