After meeting Karkat for the first time, and a buch of shit happened, with Karkat yelling, and accidentally gripping you so hard he drew blood and learning that they had the same blood colour, and even more yelling--a less seemingly 'confident' (he was very actually confident to begin with)--shows.

Karkat goes silent. He's rigid; if he was a cat, all of his hair would be sticking up right now. You ask whats wrong, and he shushes you so loudly you almost stumble back. you strain, and in the distance, you hear an odd humming... like a drone.

Suddenly, he grabs you by the arm and bursts into motion, pulling you out of his respiteblock and down the stairs. In the living room, he tugs a thick black blanket from off the couch and pulls up the rug in the centre of the room. beneath it is a trapdoor.

You try to ask: "What the hell is--"

"BE QUIET."

His movements are quick and panicky, but methodical. he props up the trapdoor, and drags you both in. So far, this guy had seemed ridiculous. but now theres something fierce and fearful in him. The sound comes again, moving closer, and you see a metal thing at the window.

Karkat yanks you into the pit with him, and wraps the two of you in the blanket together. You're plundged into darkess. What the hell is going on?

"A DRONE."

His face is squished against your shoulder, the fear in his voice makes you shudder.

"IT'S JUST A ROUTINE CHECKUP... we should be fine here. My lusus dug this for me. It hides the temperature. It hides the temperature of me. Of us. Of our mutation."

You don't understand, but you're afraid. Impossibly heavy footsteps stomp of the floor above you. Karkat is trembling, in the moment he doesn't care that you're so close. He's hyperventilating, and trying to mutter to himself that it'll be fine. God, you have to do something.