Unfortunately, yes. Once a month, people are pulled into this city from different worlds and times. Thankfully, time does not pass in our home worlds while we are here, so you can relax on that point if you had something pressing you were attending to.

[Zelda keeps herself in his line of sight with her hands folded in front of her. He seems to be extremely paranoid, and she doesn't want to set him off.

Or, judging from the rather fresh state of his wound, perhaps he's just not used to having one eye?]