Your name is still Karkat Vantas, and you are surprisingly still alive. You are hanging out in a cave with a girl that is too damn happy and you both have dead bodies that you cannot let go of. You're on the road to taking this shit over. You want to end the pointless pain and suffering of the outer districts. Alternia better say hello to its new leader. They won't be able to get rid of you. You'll be everywhere. You'll be a fair and kind leader- well, maybe not kind but you certainly will be kinder than the HGM. You don't fret that you may still die. The more you fret it, the less exciting the revolt is.
You have hated yourself less lately. You helped this girl like Aradia helped you. That made you a little happy inside. She looked much better these days. She looked better when you moved the bodies to the other chamber and washed the blood from the floor and they bodies. You made him look not dead. You washed his shirt and you cleaned up Aradia. You both go in there for an hour at different times to talk to your loved ones, the ones you'd lost. They don't respond but when she comes out of there she looks like a weight has been lifted; but at the same time she lost the sparkle in her eye for the rest of the night. You tried making her go in right before bed so she wouldn't feel so sad for the rest of the night but it only gave her nightmares. Now she goes right before dinner. The food makes her feel better. You only eat meat for dinner. Berries and such are breakfast and you skip lunch each day. You weren't surviving anymore, you guys were living. You would find the bags and supplies of the dead in the woods, you'd give the dead a flower or two and take the loot. You have collected all the possible supplies of the dead. You have 2 sleeping bags each, 5 jackets and several backpacks of goodies. You were living in those woods.
Jade had grown to like you, and you had grown to like her. You lived as good friends. She would get nightmares and you'd rock her back to sleep. Sometimes she'd cry after visiting Dave. She would just sob about how it was all her fault; that they'd be together if she hadn't been so stupid. After you shooshed her she'd tell you how glad she is that you found her. She hadn't eaten for days, she grew thinner there. Without you she would be dead. She tells you that after you cook for her.
Your visits with Aradia were far less emotional. You were okay to visit her in the morning. You may feel a bit down but you were nowhere near as upset as Jade. You told her all about the rebellion. She looked just as pretty each day.
Today you kept your visit short; you didn't want to leave Jade alone for too long. The girl had a habit of falling asleep in the mid afternoon. You found it annoying, as you hardly ever sleep these days. You just sit awake and think about the dead; about the horrors out of your little cave. You walk out of the little room containing your dead loved ones. You go to take a step off the rock ledge that led to the other small chambers, but you fall to your knee. Your height is too much for the cave.
You fall to your knee, the very knee that you had a rock shoved in twice.
You could feel every part of your knee shattering all over again.
You don't scream, the pain is too much. You black out instead.