"Yeah. I'm Karkat," he replies reluctantly. Right now he genuinely wishes he wasn't. He turns a little more, so his back is to the outside of the bubble, and he doesn't have to look at the fifteen animated corpses. "Do you know anything about what in the name of lamentable bulge grating fuck this place is?"

Something occurs to him, and in an instant, his demeanor changes from one of fear and despair to one of anger. His shoulders rise, his teeth bare, and he asks; "Did Lachesis do this?"