[ she'll give him a pass and go first. chances are he isn't gonna talk, period, but rose has a hard time resisting any sort of gossip in the first place. who is she to hold back. ]

Have you ever seen how touchy-feely they are all the time? The way they occasionally zone out and look at each other like, hello, nobody else is even in the room? How into trashy romance novels Sorey is? He and Mikleo read them together, you know. It's ridiculous. Mikleo is terrible at trying to pretend it isn't endearing, but he, like, gets super into it and everything. Their favorite genre is interspecies romance.

[ rose puts her hands on her hips and leans in, insistent on making a very clear point. ]

They sleep in the same bed, Karkat. They cuddle each other to sleep, like, spooning and everything. And this is just here! Don't even get me started on everything going on back home. It was just as terrible then, too, but it looks like they've really amped it up a notch. It drives me up the wall. The other seraphim and I used to make bets on how long it'd take them to get a clue and kiss already, but nope. Still nothing.

[ phew! that was a lot. rose practically has to catch her breath. ]

I'm pretty sure they're just... two halves of a whole person, that mushy stuff you read about in all those books. They know that, too. They also have never once considered that maybe this isn't quite how friendship works.

[ she would not sleep in the same bed as sorey. she would not want to do any single one of those things, honestly, and seriously, rose loves sorey to death. ]

So, again. Congrats. You are not the most socially inept person on this base! A minimum of two people have you beat.