Mutantbloods and Laughsassins
Your mind has been wandering. You’ve never attempted a multiple assassination before. Well. Serves those idiots for trying to wander into the wilderness during the daytime. There are two unspoken rules on Alternia: don’t fuck around after the sun comes up, and don’t piss off those who have a higher blood caste than you.
And because they broke those two rules, they’re gonna have their blood strewn all over the place. You chuckle at the thought. How beautiful that would be, a painting of miracles.
A branch snapping underfoot snaps you back to reality. But it wasn’t because of you. Slowly, calmly, your head turns. Trained to see the unseen, your violet eyes sweep across the area until they stop on one dark figure.
You nearly gasp as bright red eyes stare back at you. A greeting gets caught in your throat, forcing you to make an ugly choking sound.
"What are you doing here?" Your voice sounds more bitter than you wanted it to. You lower your tone, your eyes flitting back and forth to make sure no one else is around. "You’re not supposed to be here, bro. Get out of here, you’re going to get yourself all up and motherfuckin’ murdered."
You realize that you’ve been gripping his shoulders. Hard. You release him, but the concern, the fear, does not go away. Your pump biscuit is hammering, and it feels like it is going to burst straight out of your chest cavity. If someone finds out… Not only is Karkat going to get culled, but you may as well. You hope to the Mirthful Messiahs that no one and you mean No One is around to notice you two.
You turn away from him, and just in case there is anyone around that you can't see, make it look like you are doing something else. Anything else. Picking at the dirt, looking at the sea, staring at some prey to kill and eat, anything. The sopor slime you consume regularly makes it hard to think of anything quickly, but you manage to make it look like you’re busy ignoring your moirail.
The truth is, you haven’t seen him in some time. You've missed him. You want to hug the shit out of him and hang out and tell him how great a listener he is, how cool it is to talk at him after not seeing him in weeks. But now you’re an adult and now things are much more complicated than they were when you were dorky kids talking to each other through Trollian.
You almost want to laugh when you remember how you were obsessing over some game. There were all these rumors that the world was ending and meteors were being aimed at the communal hive stems of those who played the game. But in the end, they were only stupid rumors and it was only a stupid game. Nevertheless, it was a fond memory for you. You finally got to feel like you were close to others, even if you did fuck it up by betraying your team and going off to do your own thing in the game, alone. Karkat never held a grudge, though. He’d complain every once in a while about it, yeah, but he did that with nearly everything he came across.
You let out a heavy sigh, waiting for the reason the candy-red grubfucker is here in the first place. In the past, you told him how dangerous it was, but of course he never listened. Not when he wanted something badly enough. You turn back to him, looking at him with your piercing eyes.











