WHO: Karkat & Eridan
WHAT: a fortuitous encounter at HQ
WHEN: after Karkat's Walk of Shame
Eridan Ampora was no slacker, and always made sure to get his job done before taking free time--
Was something that could not, reasonably, be said at the moment, given the show he was putting on of pacing the halls. To be fair, he wasn't usually a slacker, and had enough sense of duty to do most of his chores. Ah, the shell of a troll he had been reduced to-- and he had never managed to shake that melodramatic streak.
But he had heard-- only and hadn't managed to gather anything more than a few off-hand comments-- that a certain someone was back from a certain mission and would be around headquarters at a certain time.
They could demote him all they wanted, but that didn't nullify the years he'd spent carefully crafting his life to follow a certain series of events, and that didn't make him think himself any less of a tactician. (He gave himself quite a bit more credit than he deserved, but if you turned your head just the right way, you could construe it as a sort of endearing persistence.)
He wasn't planning on literally running into Karkat, of course, which meant that this could only end one specific way.
WHAT: a fortuitous encounter at HQ
WHEN: after Karkat's Walk of Shame
Eridan Ampora was no slacker, and always made sure to get his job done before taking free time--
Was something that could not, reasonably, be said at the moment, given the show he was putting on of pacing the halls. To be fair, he wasn't usually a slacker, and had enough sense of duty to do most of his chores. Ah, the shell of a troll he had been reduced to-- and he had never managed to shake that melodramatic streak.
But he had heard-- only and hadn't managed to gather anything more than a few off-hand comments-- that a certain someone was back from a certain mission and would be around headquarters at a certain time.
They could demote him all they wanted, but that didn't nullify the years he'd spent carefully crafting his life to follow a certain series of events, and that didn't make him think himself any less of a tactician. (He gave himself quite a bit more credit than he deserved, but if you turned your head just the right way, you could construe it as a sort of endearing persistence.)
He wasn't planning on literally running into Karkat, of course, which meant that this could only end one specific way.