Unfortunately for Hubert he wasn't going to have any time to rethink those options. The Signless had been in a terrible state ever since he'd got back from the arena and found out that not only had Karkat not returned but neither had his Disciple. Two more of his quadrantmates were gone, the two he'd been the closest to and loved the longest, and the only ones he had left were still in the arena and unreachable.

He was really and truly alone, and it terrified him. Finding out via an arena recap that Hubert was now back in the Capitol was the first good thing to happen to him. They weren't particularly close, he knew, but they'd had at least some level of partnership going and that had to count for something. It was the best he had right now.

He made his way down to Hubert's floor and found his door without much trouble, then slumped against it and knocked. Standing up straight was for people who weren't desperate enough for comfort that they felt the need to burst in on acquaintances they'd barely known a month.