Steven had been mostly ambivalent to the previous surroundings, because with everything else going on it didn't seem to matter. The barn setting, however, is actively a comfort. He wishes he could go to sleep here, even if he's always sleeping somewhere else.

To hear that about Childermass isn't totally surprising, but it does confirm something he was already afraid of. He didn't know before if the Rose Queen was just using standard fae enchantments, or if there was something wrong with him in particular that made him vulnerable to her swap. This seems to be confirm that it's the latter. He tries to take that in.

"She's been doing something like that to me," he admits, warily. "Whenever I try to fight her, all she has to do is just... look at me, and I can't." He puts his hands to his face. "...When I tried to talk to her, to lure her away from the others... I was going to run, but... I ended up wanting to go with her. I didn't understand what happened..."