Someone is going to be upset when it's his turn to deal with Childermass's habit of vanishing for days at a time, in that case, though hopefully that next time will be under his own power. Pointless to bring it up, so he won't. It's not like he's planning on it anytime soon now, not after this mess.

"Remember the agents you mentioned before?" The ones the Nightrider's crew were meant to keep an eye out for, among other things. "After we parted ways at the zoo. I remained after closing hours to take a better look around."

Why, he keeps to himself, but it mostly had to do with getting to watch tigers without shrieking children around. Kind of a dumb reason.

"They showed up not long after and saw right through my spell."