[Frieda follows - while she's accepted that they may drift into different rooms or corners, there's no reason to not stick with Hanako for now, all the more since there's still a chance, small as it might be, that the people of this village are hiding in their homes.

It seems, however, that her tense alertness is unnecessary: No one is there, even though the house looks as if its inhabitants might return any moment. Utensils are scattered about in the kitchen - not in disarray, but merely as though they'd been in recent use -, as are other items of daily life in the adjacent room. She quietly takes everything in, then concludes:]

Either whoever lives - or lived - here still needs to eat and sleep, or they simply became accustomed to it... which might indicate that they stayed here for longer than we tend to stay in one place.