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[10thingsihateaboutme]

Who: Karkat & Sollux
Where: Chez Trailblazers
When: Shortly after this
What: Various Issues
Warnings: Gross rude troll kids. Gross rude SAD troll kids

Karkat's been kind of quiet lately. He'd been holding off on telling any of the other Trailblazers about the guy who broke into their dorms just due to a bad feeling about all of it, but after finding out what happened to Starbreaker he's decided it might be best not to get them involved in it at all. He's told CONDOR, and security on the base has been increased, but apart from that he hasn't told anybody besides the Disciple, and Sollux, and Feferi. Alternian business, he figures.

He has to admit, he'd feel a bit less concerned about all of this if Feferi was still here. Partially because he's not sure how Sollux is going to deal with her being gone and the idea of the maybe-the-Sufferer on top of everything else, but also because he's fairly sure he could trust her to be able to fight this guy.

Gloomily, Karkat makes his way to Sollux's block, to knock on the door. He really hopes he's actually there. He tells himself it's because he's worried about Sollux but mostly he just doesn't want to be on his own right now, or to have to pretend that everything's okay.

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[10thingsihateaboutme]

Worst case scenarios fill Karkat's imagination – the entire movement getting wiped out, whole groups of Sufferists slaughtered after whoever betrayed his own existence betrayed theirs too.

His ears fold down. He doesn't look at Sollux.

"They could've sent literally any jackass to kill me," he mumbles. "Why would they make a fucking clone."

[nitrodamus]

"No fucking clue," he says, pitying Karkat's obvious fear but unsure of what to do with it. "I guess cloning dudes is its own reason."

He's quiet for a moment.

"...But it does mean that they are wasting their time on stupid bullshit so maybe we can swing that."

[10thingsihateaboutme]

"Swing that?" Karkat repeats in baffled misery, clearly distracted by his own distress. "Swing that how, take the opportunity to launch our gargantuan fleet of death ships at the heart of the fucking Empire while they're looking the other way??"

[nitrodamus]

"No," Sollux says, crisply but not cruelly. "Because we don't have one of those. But what we do have is a whole fucking planet that doesn't fucking want them here any more than you do."