[Sollux moves away from the troll, not wanting to be touched or noticed by anyone he didn't know. But as soon as he notices who it was exactly, he grabs Karkat by the arm and tugs a little.]

KK?

[He wrenches his arm away and turns around, ready to give this drone a piece of his mind, when he hears that particular nickname and is suddenly able to place the face in front of him.]

Oh, fuck. When did you get here?

[Sollux smiles, relieved to see his best friend.]

Thith morning, I gueth.

[Then he realizes something]

Wait, why are you a troll while I'm human?

[Karkat doesn't smile, but he's glad to see Sollux, too. He's the last to arrive of the people he's really been concerned about.]

You'd think while they were making you human, they'd correct your fucking embarrassing way of talking.

That's just how it works. How much do you know about this place?

[He shrugs.]

I know pretty much nothing about thith plathe.

Okay, then shut up. Too many of us are showing up here and I'm not going to talk to anyone before they're up to speed because it's just the same inane basic questions over and over again.

[Fumbling around in his schoolbag until he finds a certain note (http://crusthatecean.livejournal.com/3804.html#cutid1), which he hands to Sollux to read.]

[After a few minutes, he hands the note back.]

Well, I gueth I thould probably make betht of not having a freakithly mutant brain at the moment, huh?

Edited 2011-09-14 04:11 am (UTC)

Oh, did I not clarify that point? The town doesn't fix your personality, you're still stuck being an asshole.

[There's not really anything particularly argumentative about his tone, though, and he knows what Sollux meant, especially as he's seen the difference in him after he goes blind.

He takes the note and puts it back in his bag.]

That's it? No questions or accusing me of staging an elaborate hoax?

Heh, I wouldn't be the thame if I wathtn't an athhole, would I?

[He folds his arms behind his head and thinks for a minute.]

You wouldn't thtage an elaborate hoackth againtht everyone.

[He smiles]

You're not thmart enough to do thomething like that.

Fuck you. Having your pan altered would just be too much to hope for.

Eheheheh, the thame goeth for you. Theemth like a leth angry and more fun to be around KK ith impothible, huh?

Yes, it's impossible. Even if it wasn't, I'd find a way to make it impossible just to make sure I never failed to be here to tell you how terrible you are.

Heheh, that'th okay becauthe it would be weird if you weren't telling me how terrible I am.

I'm glad this situation isn't weird.

Where do you live?

[He reaches into his pocket and takes out a slip of paper. He had written his address on it before leaving into town.]

I live on 842 Hathtingth Boulevard with the human named John from our univerthe.

Edited 2011-09-14 09:59 pm (UTC)

What?

Since when is he here?

We both woke up here thith morning.

[He shrugs.]

Why is everyone showing up at once? It's fucking impossible to keep track.

At leatht we're thowing up. Would you rather be here all by yourthelf while everyone elthe wath back in the Veil?

No.

Did I say it was a bad thing? It's just that I've been here for perigees with basically just Gamzee, Tavros, Nepeta, and Jade consistently around. And now suddenly almost every fucking asshole I know is present and accounted for.

You're making it thound like it'th a bad thing.

[He sighs and crosses his arms.]


Tho, how ith everyone? Well, everyone you've talked to tho far. I'm athuming all the people who came with me are jutht ath confuthed and irritated.

I don't know.

Horrible things keep happening, as described in detail in my memo, and everyone seems fine, I guess, but it's really hard to say.

What kind of horrible thingth? I want to know how prepared I thould be. And altho, how long doeth it take until I thtart getting thit from our world? Thuch ath my troll body?

[Now he has questions.]

Okay. Last time, it was this situation where they delivered disgusting human dairy beverages to our hives and told us someone had to drink them. When we didn't, they made one of us go on a shithive murder spree until we did.

The dairy beverages had varying effects but they were all somewhere between making us really sick or flat out killing us horribly. I mean, I got off really easily with what happened to me, but it kind of makes me feel like shit thinking about everything my hivemates went through.

[He sighs; he hasn't really talked about this with anyone, and he doesn't know if he wants to right now or not.]

It's really impossible to predict when you'll get those things back. It usually takes about an earth month or two.

If thomething ath harmleth ath human dairy productth cauthed thingth like that to happen then thith plathe ith thomething I thouldn't take lightly.

An Earth month? Whatever, I gueth I'll find out when it happenth.