[He isn't too surprised. After all, Cecil and Laguna were both from seventeen years after the Cycle. It would make sense that there would some from before it, as well.]

Not necessarily. The people here come for across time and space. Though I did know you at one point in time, it seems that you are from before that time.

[This might be more convenient, actually. It means that there would be no bad blood between them, if it ever existed in the first place.]