He knows technically, this Karkat isn't necessarily the same doomed timeline version of Karkat he used to know. His whole mood is wrong, he'd been shouting for one of the humans, he'd met multiple doomed versions of Eridan himself --
There's a long, blissful minute where Karkat might think Eridan's literally fucked off, but eventually he shuffles over to the railing. There is... a weirdly respectful amount of distance between them, although that's mostly by complete accident.
"...Um. Wwhat, uh. Wwhat happened? Before you wwoke up here." And, because he knows Karkat probably better than he realizes and can see where he's looking, "It doesn't wwork. You just wwake up back in your room the next day."
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and finds that nothing actually comes out.
He knows technically, this Karkat isn't necessarily the same doomed timeline version of Karkat he used to know. His whole mood is wrong, he'd been shouting for one of the humans, he'd met multiple doomed versions of Eridan himself --
There's a long, blissful minute where Karkat might think Eridan's literally fucked off, but eventually he shuffles over to the railing. There is... a weirdly respectful amount of distance between them, although that's mostly by complete accident.
"...Um. Wwhat, uh. Wwhat happened? Before you wwoke up here." And, because he knows Karkat probably better than he realizes and can see where he's looking, "It doesn't wwork. You just wwake up back in your room the next day."