Q had taken the tissues to blow his nose and dry his face (not in that order, of course) as Malcolm tried to soothe him. If he was honest, he wasn't really good at it and Q couldn't help but laugh a little.
When the officer had brought up more questions, Q didn't answer right away. Again, the doubt in his mind was telling him that the officer wouldn't believe what he saw with his own two eyes, especially since Malcolm had asked about skin color and if it was a girl or a boy, like the thing that killed his parents was even human. He briefly thought about lying so he wouldn't look like an idiot or a, ironically enough, a liar, but his father told him to always tell the truth, no matter what, much like his aunt had that day.
He looked up to the expectant detective, still fighting with himself on what to say. Maybe he could just play it like it was "too hard to go on," even if it wasn't to that point.. yet.
No, no, no.. I can't do that. It's wrong.
On top of it being wrong, he wasn't a baby. He was confident he could keep going without sobbing like that again. He's tough. His mom always told him he was a tough kid, and he was gonna be tough now. For her. For both of his parents. He inhaled deeply again.
"I-it wasn't a person," Q stated, hoping he didn't sound dumb saying it. "It.. It was a thing. It looked like a p-person, but it wasn't. I-it just wasn't. It was real tall - way taller than my dad is-! Um.. w-was," the child hesitated for a short moment, trying to judge if he was about to start crying again. When he found that he wasn't, he continued, "He was in a kinda, uh.. r-r-robe thing, and it didn't look like he had eyes at all. I didn't see a shine or anything. I can't really tell you the rest of the face, cause it was pretty dark.. I think he was smiling at me? Not a really nice smile, though. A scary one."