I definitely didn't ask for the puss explosion but yeah- let's go with you not being here for the reason it happened.

[If Steve really wants to take the blame for some random happenstance he'll let him but the look on his face is anything but sincere. It's high brow sarcastic and he is still beating the worms back with his stick, slightly jealous of Steve and his baseball bat now.]

This isn't the situation with D'Art. This is clearly different.

[A couple more wallops with the piece of wood, a worm tries to make its way into his shoe and he shakes his foot off, stomps on it a few good times for measure.]

Man, you really weren't lying about this place.