[... Oh yeah, that's right. Eridan hasn't entered the Medium yet. He's not the Prince of Hope in the Land of Wrath and Angels yet.
Karkat steps over grub Gamzee and grub Nepeta and sits down on the transportalizer. Grub Kanaya immediately decides to start climbing up him.]
Do you believe in that ancestor shit?
[It comes out of nowhere, all of a sudden. He remembered finding his symbol on a tattered old cloth that was nonetheless still as red as his blood. He remembered adopting it as his own before he even fully understood why his lusus insisted on him learning to bandage even the most minor of grazes he sported.
Absently, he pulls Kanaya off of him and sets her on the floor. Aradia begins to crawl up his back and he winces before pulls her off too.]