[The revelation of an old woman living in a walking house, wandering about and stealing memories? That's news to him.]

I haven't heard of anything like that happening in Thorne. [The audience is very much welcome to interrupt if Stephen is just out of the loop.] Though if she's stealing away memories, then that makes it difficult to verify for sure.

[Something in his jaw ticks. Memory-wiping is not a subject he's particularly keen to linger on, for his own personal reasons, but he pushes that aside for now. This isn't about him.]

You said something about people disappearing? Do you think the two are related?