That's kind of worse than 'I don't know'. Karkat's face falls a little, but he shakes his head.

"No – look, okay, I'm not going to pretend it's not a massive pain in my ass that you've just dumped yourself onto my leg shelf like a sad orphan barkbeast with emotional problems, because it's not like there's anywhere I can fucking take you, but..." He grimaces. "I want to help, okay."