Kieren knows it's later than he usually comes back and normally, he'd tease Sirius right back, but he's still so shaken up that he can't do much more than pour himself a drink, gulping it back as if he desperately needs the courage. "Got a bit lost on the way to the bus," is what he says, though the hems of his jeans are dirty and there's a rip in his shirt from where he fell in the alley.

He definitely hadn't made it to the bus stop tonight. Absently, he wonders if that creature is all right, worried that he might have somehow made things worse.