It isn't a fun way to travel when unexpected, that's for sure, but Childermass won't apologize for dragging Sora along so abruptly. So they got him into trouble. They also got him out of it, for now. He will, at least, offer Sora a hand up if he needs it.

"The courts are coming after their changelings," he answers the 'what's going on' part. "I was warned that the Count needs one of his own blood for something, though what exactly, I do not know. It could be that ritual you saw."