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[sleeplessinalternia]

Who| Karkat and Roland, Karkat and Nepeta, Karkat and Felicity
What| After Hans' discussion gets out of hand, Karkat has people to talk to.
Where| District Four, District Two, elsewhere???
When| the day of Hans' discussion
Warnings/Notes| There'll be three separate threads, which I'll put up in the order they occur. This way I don't have to spam the comm!

It had taken longer than Karkat thought to extricate himself from the discussions Hans had started, even with Bert implying those things he had about Nepeta. But he'd managed to pull himself away from everything in the end and now he was on his way up to D4 to make sure everything was all right and nobody had been infested with anybody's young.

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[sleeplessinalternia]

"You'll know him when you see him," Karkat says. "He looks like me, only bigger. Kind of like Bert and that mentor guy of his--which is kind of weird, actually--only more so." He peers thoughtfully at Roland before adding, "Hey, you've known Bert since you were both wigglers, right? So you'd know about all the stupid pancracked things he's done, right?" He examines his claws. "Except since he's come here. But I know those."

[ka_sera_sera]

Roland watches the boy studying those claws of his, watches while he examines the sharp heat making its way through him and identifies it as jealousy. It's the way that last statement is said as much as anything else - so casual. Of course he he knows. Not even in question that this boy knows every detail of Cuthbert's life, while Roland himself is completely ignorant. Roland lets the feeling be, waits a silent moment for it to pass through and out of him. A little of the feeling still clings, but he senses a large part of it go with no hint of regret. Of all the different things swirling inside him at all he's learned, jealousy is a particularly unworthy one. This boy's stood with Cuthbert, protected him as best he can and stayed beside him when, apparently, few others would. It's a particularly good piece of luck - or maybe more, though his thoughts flit quickly away from that - that Bert's found such a person. All the other reactions inside him are more difficult to name, but even in the midst of that Roland does know that he is damned grateful.

He lets a breath go, slowly, and his wooden expression begins to soften.

"I'd know more about this mentor of his, but yes. Since we were in clouts." A corner of his lips twitches up. "Perhaps we can make an even exchange of it. Allies against Cuthbert for his own sake. Trade some stories." He doesn't know much about this boy yet, but that'd be a start.

andddd i think we're done

[sleeplessinalternia]

"Yeah," Karkat says, "that sounds like a good ide-- shit, there's Nepeta. Look, we can talk later, okay? I'll see you around."

He hurries off in the direction of the troll girl with the horns like cat ears who's just entered the room.