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[alienates]

i will make this pretty later

open for telepathy | voice | text | action | etc

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[witchhooded]

Maybe. Geir and I have not talked about it much.

Did they have carriers for animals on Alternia?

[alienates]

[ the question takes him a little off guard. ]

Most of the beasts on my planet were attempting to eat you, so no, they weren't very common. You'd probably lose a limb trying to shove something into one. Why?

[witchhooded]

[ she's fairly positive they shoved her in a dog kennel at some point, and that's probably the box she broke her collarbone falling out of. ]

Thinking out loud!

Are you okay?

[alienates]

I'm fucking great! Why did you ask that?

[ if it were dave who suddenly asked about it, karkat may have let the subject dropped because dave going on off topic tangents isn't that weird.

but he's already aware that jade isn't being as descriptive as she can be about what's going on. ]

[witchhooded]

Beeeeecause I am not physically there to check up on you???

[ and because jade's already trying to avoid worrying anyone - she opts to pretend to assume that karkat is asking why she's changing the subject. ]

[alienates]

[ the sound he makes is slightly amused. ]

Oh, I'm great. Just a little concerned that my best bro was humannapped by some psychotic scientists. I think carriers might have been involved, but I don't know what gave me that impression.

[witchhooded]

[ important distinction to be made here, first ]

Are you. Talking about me?

[ jade likes karkat and is kind of... flattered he cares that much about her. best bro? is that her? ]

[alienates]

[ admittedly, karkat tends to call the person he is most emotional about at the moment his best bro. some people definitely did not deserve that title (gamzee) while others definitely do (jade). ]

No. Geir. Yes, you.

[witchhooded]

[ a beat. ]

I'm not sure about the carrier. If there was one involved, it was after... I fell out of one or broke one open. Carriers have a top and a bottom that snap together which is what it looked like, but it didn't have a metal opening.

[alienates]

[ he's quiet for a moment. or, for how long as karkat is able to keep quiet. ]

I am really pissed off over the fact that you are out there, stuck in a horrible situation and all I can really do is sit around and wait for everyone here to figure out a way to get you back, since I am incapable of helping you on my own as if I was a newly hatched grub.

[ she did ask how he was doing. ]

[witchhooded]

[ oh, karkat. ]

Just talking is helping! I really miss you. I guess it's silly to say but hearing your voice is nice. It's... kind of a luxury, sort of.

[ she has a constant connection to the outside. if she wanted to, she could literally never end this telepathic phone call - but she will, because inevitably, someone will walk down that hall, put her in those cuffs and take her out for more experimentation. and she'd prefer to be dead before letting karkat hear that.

so yes. hearing him talk is a luxury. ]

[alienates]

[ talking is one thing that he is very good at, at least. ]

That is quite possibly the first and only time anyone has ever said that. I am utterly goddamn devastated that I didn't get to record it.

[ he misses her too. ]

What do you want to talk about?

[witchhooded]

You snooze, you lose, Karkat!

Um, anything? All of my conversations have been around this so not the whole kidnapping thing for a little bit. So... What did you do today?

[alienates]

[ if this was happening in person, he'd stick his tongue out at her for the first comment. ]

I discovered how to properly prepare a dish involving what you may call "peanut butter."

[witchhooded]

[ ..........peanut butter sounds really good, and jade's stomach growls a little bit. holy shit. ]

You are a regular chef now then!!! Maybe soon you will be on my level, a master spaghetti-ist, hehehe.

[alienates]

I accept the challenge. Soon, you will be begging me to provide you a nutritious meal. You will bang your eating utensils on the table, urging me to hurry up, but I'll tell you that perfection takes time as I stir the peanut butter in the pot.

[ for some reason in this fantasy he's boiling peanut butter. ]

[witchhooded]

[ it's a fine and dandy fantasy??? ]

Oh I am soooo convinced! What are you even cooking with peanut butter?

[alienates]

[ there's a silence.

he didn't think this far ahead. ]

Spaghetti.

[witchhooded]

[ UNACCEPTABLE?? ]

No, that is my specialty! You have to beat me at making.

[alienates]

You sound like you are just worried that I will dethrone you with my peanut butter spaghetti dish.

[ that he just made up right now. ]

[witchhooded]

Yep. I am so worried. The most worried. You are going to beat me at my own game and then I am going to be so embarrassed.

[ the joke is neither of them can cook. ]

So you use the peanut butter to boil your noodles?

[alienates]

It gives it a nice texture that makes it go down the nutrition tunnel a lot more smoothly.

[ ???????? ]

And it also provides that extra kick.

[witchhooded]

[ oh my god ]

That is not even remotely how peanut butter would boil!!! You are lying!! What do you really make with peanut butter, you silly goose?

[alienates]

I usually just stick my hand in the jar and then lick it from my hands.

[witchhooded]

[ i mean

adorable ]

That is so not cooking, Karkat!

But probably delicious.