You are Sollux Captor, and you had to squint up at the taller troll who had just disturbed your glaring contest. You finally recognized that the troll who was standing directly in front of you was indeed Gamzee Makara. He looked down at you and Equius, his goofy smile plastered on his face like he hadn't a care in the world.

Equius immediately stepped back and kneeled, his head bowed and his arms were respectfully put to his side, his previous attitude completely gone and replaced with submissiveness.

"What the mother fuck are you doing Equius? I told you, you don't have to kneel to me every time we meet, the blood caste isn't supposed to matter here, but people like you keep it around." Gamzee slurred, frowning a bit at Equius.

"Is that an order?" Equius responded, looking up a bit from his position.

"For what?"

"To stop kneeling to you."

"Uh, yeah… sure. Stop motherfucking kneeling to me and uh, stop with this, blood caste nonsense."

"Oh course Highblood."

Gamzee frowned and mumbled something under his breath about at how at least he wasn't doing anything stupidly embarrassing, but nonetheless reassured Equius with a smile when he stood up.

"Right, so what is going on around here?"

"Well, you see-"

And then Kanaya interrupted.

"If you don't mind, I would like to tell you what had happened as seen from an outsiders point of view with as little biased information as possible, if that wouldn't be to terribly difficult of a request, Lord Makara."

Gamzee turned to her and gave her a surprisingly sweet smile and nodded his head.

"Of course Lady Maryam, go right on ahead."

She beamed back at him and patted her dress down from invisible dust before she started.

"From the point of view of which I have received thus entering this situation, is that this young lady here," she motions to Aradia, with her left hand, "was being pursued by these two," she then motions towards Karkat and yourself with her right hand, "and their gang. Eridan was there too, but his intentions, whether they were good or evil, were and still are unknown to me. They seemed to be good intentions, but only he would be able to tell us. Continuing on, I ended up taking custody of the young girl as to help her in her current state."

Kanaya then motioned to Aradia again, this time pointing out her scraped up knees and scratched hands. You were shocked by these revelations, as you didn't even notice until Kanaya just pointed it out. You also noticed that though it was nice outside, she also looked very pale and exhausted. You supposed the last two symptoms might be from the chase, but the other two you have no clue as to how they got there.

Kanaya continued.

"As I was escorting her to my hive, we encountered Vriska, who insisted that no low blood was able to enter this area, and that is where our conflict aroused."

Gamzee had a thoughtful but serious look on his face when he spoke up.

"Lady Maryam, you can take the little lady to your hive and fix her up, Karkat and Sollux can go back to their gang, and the rest of you can do whatever you usually do besides messing with anyone here. Does that sound fair?"

Kanaya raised her hand. "I agree."

Everyone else stood there, not wanting to lose this fight out of pride, rage, or other motives. After a few more moments of silence, Equius raised his hand.

"Is it okay if accompany Kanaya to her hive? I would like to make sure that the girl gets better."

You rolled your eyes and pointed your thumb in his direction and silently pretended to swoon then pointed at Aradia all while looking at Karkat, who in turn snickered under his breath. You then stuck out your forked tongue and acted out puking and he nodded, but almost laughed out loud when you stumbled on your own feet and almost fell over.

You looked over to see Aradia roll her eyes.

"I have a name you know."

This brought Kanaya's attention back to the conversation after observing your and Karkat's miming sequence, and she gasped.

"Oh my! How rude of me! I am terribly sorry, I wasn't thinking straight! What is your name my dear?"

Aradia smiled and did a small bow.

"I am Aradia Megido, it's nice to meet you!"

"And I am Kanaya Maryam, a pleasure to make your acquaintance Now, Equius, do you mind restating that request?"

And this point, it was obvious to everyone but Gamzee and Aradia about his flushed feelings for her. He put up one of his hands to cover his mouth and the bottom part of his face, attempting to cover his blushing. Vriska smirked but said nothing and Eridan face-palmed next to you and sighed, muttering "He's hopeless…" under his breath. You snickered as Kanaya expectantly waited for his response.

"I w-would like to accompany you and Mrs. Megido to your hive in order to make sure she gets properly t-treated."

Aradia smiled again-God that smile was getting annoying quickly-but this time, a little softer.

"That's very kind of you, but I think I'll be fine if I just went home."

You almost burst out laughing because she practically rejected him without even knowing it. She glances at you and glares, seeming to see straight through your thoughts. You shudder, but still make a snarky remark.

"And what are you looking at?"

"Nothing much." She snapped back, obvious distaste in her voice.

Eridan 'ooh-ed', but you elbowed him in the gut, making the sound cut off short.

"Wow, okay, calm down, I don't see any reason why you would hate me so much!"

She turned and marched up to you and looked you dead in the eye, her anger flowing out of her.

"Hate you? That is too kind of a word for the feelings I have towards you right now! I was forced to run half way through town all because of some stupid accident! I would have never came out of my hive today had I not want to see my friends, whom, might I mention, I haven't seen in over three sweeps! So if you don't mind, I think you should just shut up and stop laughing your ass off!"

You stood dumbfounded with her speech, and even Karkat was flabbergasted.

"Hey, uh, I'm sorry about that, I, er, we, didn't know-"

"It doesn't matter if you knew or not, you should never disrespect anyone! Human or troll!" she said, spinning on her heels to now face Karkat.

He actually shrank back next to Kanaya, who calmly put her arms around him, even though she was smiling in an almost proud, motherly way.

"Aradia, do you know your way home?" Kanaya asked, looking up from Karkat.

"Um, yes? I'm pretty sure I do, I've never really been down here before." She said, distracted off of her previous train of thoughts.

"Okay then, it's settled. Once I patch you up, I will let Equius and Eridan escort you home. Does that seem fair?"

Aradia shrugged, apparently not caring either way if she had blood stains on her knees or if she even had body guards. It made you wonder what made her so confident even when she had no weapon at hand. Maybe she was like you… No! Impossible! Why would the wretch be anything like you?

You glanced up from your thoughts to see that Kanaya had already started to lead Aradia away towards her hive, as Gamzee and Equius followed in tote. Vriska had already vanished and Karkat was already walking back to the lower part of the town. You didn't even notice Eridan wasn't gone until he prodded your shoulder.

"Hey Sol, you okay?" a look of concern crossing over his face.

"Huh? Oh yeah, I'm fine, nothing to worry about." You sigh, rubbing the back of your head. Your mind wonders back to when the odd clouds had appeared overhead in the distance. They weren't there yesterday or the day before. The forecast for the whole week was supposed to be sunny, but you had feeling they had nothing to do with the weather.


EXTRA INFO!: Despite humans and trolls living together, there is still discrimination between the two races. In addition, since the humans came over, sexism was also involved, and though some human males would have liked to put troll women at the lowest status, those men were quickly eliminated by "unknown sources" after announcing these things in public. It is fair to say that being sexist and racist wasn't very popular after that.