Karkat stops dead for a moment, staring at nothing, and then his face falls, his ears droop; he doesn't look up.

He'd already given up thinking that he might ever see any of his friends again when Sollux arrived, and he feels like one lost friend reunited with him is more than he can reasonably hope for – he's sure that if Sollux was imprisoned for almost a year before he found his way here, then if any of the others were still making their way to Earth, they would have arrived by now.

Unless they'd ended up in the same place as Sollux had.

He swallows.

"Yeah," he says, dully.