[Those were all names he recognized. Truly, he had been in this Tower too long. His eyelids lower a bit in sympathy for Feferi that he can't quite hide. Karkat is well beyond the point of being able to care for the admins, or anything going on around him, really. His friends were important. That they made this as hard as possible for those bastards -- that was important.

Everything else could go hang.

He tries to ignore the notation of green -- his collar color.]

...we can't do anything about him now. All we can do is make use of what he gave us.

[He lets his arms fall, hands sliding into his pockets.]

Look. I've been here a long time, and I think we might have gotten off on the wrong pedal stub. But if Dax is gone, that means we get Jason sooner and none of us can afford to be complete strangers.