Karkat's eyes narrow. "Look," he says, "I know I'm not the tallest of trolls and my horns are not the sharpest--" This is an understatement. "--but you have no fucking business saying I don't look like a troll. And no, I've never heard of dwarfs. They are not on the list of species we've conquered and nobody told me that Kili wasn't a really short human."