Door works fine! You peek out cautiously, careful not to cross the threshhold. You'll go back soon. But not yet. Just... not yet. There's the ectobiology lab you expected to find when you staggered through this door; there's Sollux still passed out on the floor. Everything is as you left it ( Read more... )

Deep down, Karkat has always know it was a matter of who would snap and when, not if. Trolls aren't team players; even the best trolls are pretty much insane, when you get right down to it. And you had to suspect the highbloods; violence and power was in their nature, and that kind of thing could curdle in the face of overwhelming odds ( Read more... )

When Karkat returns to their hidey-hole in the asteroid from Milliways, it takes a moment to re-orient himself. In all the weeks in the bar, no time has passed here. He needs to talk to his friends about what he saw, see if there's some way to use it to mount a defense against the creature hunting them, but first he has to take stock of his crew ( Read more... )