[He needed to be evasive. Needed some distraction to take the focus off of him for a second. He felt... he didn't know how he felt about using their relationship to his advantage, but he bent forward to take one of Karkat's hands in his. Running the pad of his thumb over the welts on those knuckles, he tut-tutted at the boy and drew his eyebrows up in mock-concern.]
[Action.]
Lemme take care of this.