"Only like a shit ton of people who think I'm the second coming of troll Jesus," Karkat mutters. He's quiet after that, though, thinking about it, and not for the first time – about the friends who left with him, and the ones who didn't, and how he knows where two of them are now, but that's only two. The others...

"... Most of my actual god damn friends left with me, and I lost them, so who the hell knows. But I –" He breaks off, and frowns, at the floor. For a moment he bites his lip. Then, not looking at Katniss, he admits, "I think if I go back and we overthrow the corrupting regime and all that shit then... they can come home. But then, fuck, I don't even know if it'll still be home if we overthrow it, right?"