Karkat swears, loudly, as soon as that answer is out of the other troll's mouth. "Why the fuck is it always TRIDENT??" He puts his face in his hands with a protracted groan. "It's like they literally exist to shit on everything I love. It's like they exist to take my stuff and cram it into their gross warm human mouths and squeeze it through their revolting alien digestive systems and shit it out all over all of the other shit I care about! I – fuck!"

He drags his hands down his face as he looks up at the Signless again, shaking his head. "No, look, the guys who got you now, they fight TRIDENT all the time, they wouldn't..."

He doesn't quite sound like his heart's in it, though.