Karkat's eyes widen a little. He'd been afraid the Signless had meant that – that he'd wiped out colonies of Sufferists at the Condesce's behest, that perhaps somehow Karkat was already all there was left. The way he says 'to me', though, implies something completely different, and perhaps Karkat should be relieved, but he isn't, in the slightest. He stares at his double – his ancestor, if that's what he really is – for a few long moments, and then forces himself to look away.

"Shit," he says again, quietly. He glances up at him again for a second, with eyes like yellow lamps. He swallows. "...She can't now, though."