He reminds Mollusc of one of those toys, where you crank until a mechanism is triggered and a painted head pops out. He has a feeling that once someone flips that switch for Karkat, it's pretty difficult to stuff the painted head back in its box. Instead, it just has to bob there grimacing on its spring until it's through.

"Dang. You're just as loud and obnoxious as you are on television," he says with an eye roll. "I get that you're stressed out. I'm stressed out too, brother horns, but someone said that District 6 has had a lot of people bail recently. She shouldn't be that hard to find. Gotta be like spearing fish in a barrel."