Steve's getting a sideways sort of look, like it's strange that he's surprised by this. That he doesn't get that nowhere is safe, out in the world. Thomas pauses, lips moving for a moment with words he hadn't quite decided on yet.

"Where... did you come from? Before here." He settles on that. When him and his friends were trapped in the Maze, they didn't know anything about the outside world. Maybe this guy's the same? "What's 'the Flare' mean to you? 'WICKED'?"