"Well, there are people arriving and leaving all the time, but I know that there are some people who have been here as long as nine years." It seemed unbelievable to Martouf as well, although not necessarily a bad thing. As strange as this place could be, it was a lot less violent than home was.
"From what I've been told, when you return, you return to the last moment you left, so nobody even realizes you've been gone."
He supposed that was good, too. Otherwise he would have hated to be here at all, having abandoned all he'd fought for his entire life.