Leaf keeps up.

"Right now we're the only people near this house, but my mother and brother will probably be visiting today or tomorrow," he says/types.

Next to the house is a large and highly mysterious object. It looks big enough to fit several of Miles inside, and it has a pointy end and thin legs it perches on the ground with, and a curves-and-triangles sort of general structure. It does not appear to be either magical or alive.