Aside from the Moogles, there aren't any shop keepers that aren't dreamers who are also stuck here.

[ Meaning...well, he doesn't owe anyone, except maybe the moogles but even that wasn't guaranteed - things had been destroyed before and simply reappeared later. Carolina had come to the conclusion that the dream world simply replaced it at will; that's what happened with crates in Twilight Town, after all. ]

And not all dreamers are human.

[ Meanwhile, Lela obliges Kanji's gaze by trotting out from behind her Person and mewing pleasantly, circling him with obvious curiousity. There was a faint huffle-chuckle from the lizard on Carolina's shoulder, but the armored human merely sighed faintly. ]

She's Lela, and this is Dax. [There was an obliging hiss] You are?