Surprisingly well, actually. He's been here for a while, turns out.

[He half expected Gogol to have died of boredom already, but that also speaks volumes of just how unstable this environment really is despite of how it seems on the surface. Or maybe Gogol has already died in the past. Who knows!]

Guess it depends on where you've come from - living here seems relatively peaceful, so far.

[Yet the airy way he says it seems to imply that he doesn't believe that one bit.]