[ Wolfe's been getting used to the American accents of all of the townspeople here, the accents that many of the others who have been brought here also have. So when he hears a different accent (not Jess, not Morgan, not Glain, though the inflections immediately make him think of the three of them) he's immediately looking to see where it came from, lifting both eyebrows in an unimpressed expression when he sees the subject of the stranger's musings. ]

Of course it is. The "Santa" that children believe in has never existed, even if there was a St. Nicholas in the third century.