Shit, I got no motherfuckin' clue either, bro. I ain't ever had a problem with fishbro, but I hear Kanaya and best friend are harshin' something real motherfuckin' fierce on him.

Yeah, I can tell that thomething ith definitely up and I think I have a right to know.

If you find anything out, can you hit a brother up? Eridan wants me to be all austipicizing for him, but it ain't really easy to do that when I don't even know what people are all grudging on him for.

Why don't you jutht athk KK?

Haha, I think he'd be all more willing to tell you than me. Best friend ain't real into letting me in the know about this kind of shit.

Fine. I'll tell you what'th up after he'th told me.

[A FEW MINUTES LATER well more like a half an hour or so later Gamzee gets a call]

Alright, if you thtill want me to tell you what happened, KK told me thome of the thit that went down.

Uhhhhhh...

[give him a few seconds while he tries to remember what Sollux is talking about]

...oh yeah! Haha, sure, lay it on me.

Alright tho apparently, Eridan came over to FF and I while we were chilling on your horn pile in the Veil, looking to pick a fight. Him and I fought and he brought thith thtupid powerful wand and knocked me out, making me lothe my thight and my pthionic abilitieth. Afterwardth, FF got up to fight him and he..

[This was a little bit harder to actually say out loud then to hear.]

He killed her. And then Kanaya dethided to thtep up but he killed her too, along with the Matriorb tho our rathe ith doomed. Then he abthconded leaving KK there all alone who, by the way, did nothing during thith whole ordeal.

Apparently, Kanaya came back alive ath a rainbow drinker and thawed Eridan in half tho he got what wath coming for him.

[...holy shit, that had not been the answer he'd been expecting at all. He knew that some of them had died back in the Veil, but he'd managed to push it out of his mind, so it's doubly shocking not only hearing it confirmed but also their identities.]

I...fuck. Why would he pull that shit? Fuck, and the Matriorb? I don't -- I thought he and Feferi were all what real motherfuckin' tight, he never said a word about any of this before.

Okay. Since Feferi knows now, you might as well.

Why would you keep anything from me anyway? Ith there really a point?

Yes, there's a goddamn point. Everything on the timeline after you has gone completely to shit and is awful in every conceivable way.

If you don't need to know about the miserable excuse we have for a future, why would you want to? Oh wait, I forgot, you get off on being important and knowing things before everyone else.

Thut the fuck up! Thith ith a theriouth fucking ithue and I would like to know all the detailth about what Eridan did pleathe!

Okay. Fine.

So he showed up when you and Feferi were over on the hornpile trying to pick a fight. So you fought him, but this time he had some shitty magic wand or something that he could actually fight with, and he fucked you up pretty bad. Feferi tried to take him out, and he...

[Karkat pauses a little, finding it difficult to tell this story even though he's powering through it as quickly as he can.]

He killed her, all right? That's when Kanaya got involved, but he destroyed the matriorb and then he killed Kanaya, too.

I...I was there too, by the way. I was the one standing in the corner like a complete asshole watching this shit show go down. So since I was the key surviving witness, I know you didn't die. You just lost you stupid psychic powers and went blind.

And then later Kanaya came back to life as a rainbowdrinker and killed Eridan with her chainsaw. That wasn't sarcasm, by the way, that's really what happened.

There, that's the story of just the first series of brutal murders to go down since we last talked.

[That's actually kind of shocking and a little bit unsettling to him. If he had stayed in the Veil for only a few more minutes, he would have lost his powers, his sight, and the girl he was flushed for. After a few moments of silence, he speaks up.]

Tho, there were more murderth?

Yes, but can you do me a favor and not ask about them right now? Or ever?

Yeah, thorry.

[Welp his truce with Eridan was short.]

...Are we okay?

Yeah, we're okay.

...I'm going to guess that you know what happened.

And, well...I'm not going to the dance. I promise it's not you. If I'd known all this stuff earlier...well, things would be a shell of a lot different. But as it is? I don't have it in me to dance right now.

It'th okay and underthtandable. I think I'd be more comfortable with you thtaying home anyway.

...what is that supposed to mean? Did you not think that maybe I had wanted to go and it's upsetting as shell to sea everyone else glubbing and maybe I'd gotten all excited about it but now I feel like a piece of whale shit attached to Davy Jones' locker.

You'd be comfortabubble with me staying home? Even if I don't have it in me to be up and dancing, I kind of wasn't given much of a choice in the matter after having that depth charge dropped on me.

[she'll apologize later; this is all her upset being dumped out.]

[Sollux stays silent for a few minutes, a little shocked at Feferi's reaction.]

I'm thorry. I didn't mean for it to come off ath thelfith or anything. I know how eckthited you were about going and I'm thorry that thith all happened.