John was curled up on the couch, Tavros and Gamzee had retreated so they could have the living room. This hive was big enough that is practically didn't even matter if they had in fact stayed or not. Davesprite was stuck small, but he was sleeping peacefully on the arm of the couch. Jadesprite had run off to make sure everyone was doing well. She couldn't just sit by the conked out little kid until he woke up after all. Besides, she'd explained to the little Dave so that would have to be good enough. It was weird though, as there were two Dave's so it was a problem knowing what to call them. She would figure that out for now she needed to go see if she could spot the room where everything went down. Apparently they had all been avoiding the room since that death. Couldn't blame them, it was a bit shocking with the little bastard gone. Quiet, it definitely was too quiet. For some reason with everyone being sad about Karkat's... death it was easier to keep herself up and spirited. There was nobody else that was able to act like this so why not her? It made perfect sense!
Busying herself with popping her head in and out of doors she found most rooms had no purpose at all or were cluttered with useless objects. How much shit could one troll have? Collections of just pebbles all in the same shape, troll barbie dolls in the masses, and old gross melted lollipops of strange colors. Alright that last room smelled a bit funky so she was hoping she would find the right one soon. It was easy enough to be able to pop her head in and out as she was a sprite and all, but it was getting frustrating.
"One more," she told herself in a low growl. She was just going to give up at this rate. Pressing her head into the next room she froze. Yeah, this had to be it. A trail of red blood went across the entire floor. Yet it led to nothing. No sign of the body or anything. From what she had been told Jadesprite had expected that Karkat's dead body would be around still. Or... did somebody secretly take care of it? The fur around her neck bristled at the very idea.
She almost wanted to back out and pretend she didn't see anything but that bright red blood was interesting to say the least. Jade had been told about trolls having different colored blood, but never this bright shade of red. No, it had never been mentioned to her at least. Perhaps it was not something that was an appealing thing to tell.
No matter what notion brought this on she'd found herself hovering over the trail and reaching out to touch it. Instantly she withdrew her hand. This shit was still wet. Fresh! Fresh fucking blood. Looking around she felt her heart pounding, no she could hear it. Quickly she whipped around, not sure what she was expecting to see.
Of course there was nothing but the pure idea that this blood was fresh was oddly not comforting.
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