Are they someone keeping tabs on what's going on now? [No doubt, guessing from what happened with the others, that his file would also include come information on his world, and he's curious to see how the Glade is doing while he's away.

He climbs onto the machinery to select his name, but all he sees are images of nature with no people, and an everyday picture of one of the Teensie villages.] Are these from before or after we came?

[He must have underestimated the ones responsible for all this. Of course they wouldn't grab random people without doing research on where they came from.]

They must have planned this Hero of Light thing for years.