Bud pulls back too when Steven starts speaking, and then bobs back towards her friend, watching Matt warily. Clearly Matt is making Steven upset somehow based on Steven's expression. She's not going to keep fighting him, though, if they're trying to have a conversation.

"My dad..." he mumbles, looking away for a moment. He can barely think about their apartment without immediately fixating on the day that Childermass had come to take him. Everything before that is so confused. He searches his mind anyway, though, and starts piecing together a few happier memories. Memories of other people in that apartment building, and how he had been so eager to meet them when he was little...

"I... I got taken away," he says, like he's trying to explain how he just disappeared, and why he can't seem to remember it as clearly. That much is probably obvious just from the sight of him, though.