Terezi, to her credit, is silent. She's not sure what to say. She knows that most bluebloods wouldn't care about a few casualties. There were so many reds and browns and yellows, they could easily be replaced by another.

But that's not how Terezi feels about it, and this sounds too akin to torture for her to be okay with it. Maybe she had always known it was going to be bad, but a system this big is difficult to change. Her only real hope for Sollux was that his skills would save him from being treated poorly, which isn't much of a hope at all. She's almost glad that they never got a chance to enter the Fleet.

"How long were you... How long have you been a Helmsman?" she asks, quietly now. It's not difficult to miss the sympathy in her expression.