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==> BE KARKAT
There was actually a minute where you thought it was going to work out. They let you get quite a ways into your pitch for letting you go forward into the threshecutioners with your frankly fantastic scores, the teal regurestrictor looking rapidly back and forth between you and a palmhusk while the drones stood stolidly by, but they must just have been waiting for orders.
“So while I acknowledge my disgusting–” And then you stagger forward, and look down, and the tines of the drone’s fork are sticking out of your chest–
Your vision is swimming with spots, and you barely see the second fork coming.
You know it’s there, because suddenly you’re standing back at a distance, watching yourself crumple on the culling forks, watching the drones carry you away–
“Karkat!”
It grabs your attention more than it seems like it should, especially when competing for your attention is your body. You swivel around nonetheless, and see – Aradia and Sollux. Sollux looks sick. Aradia is looking at you.
==> BE ARADIA
Blood flies. Kanaya flinches. You swallow, and reach for the ghost.