Karkat glances at Wesker and then shrugs. "This hive's not so bad even with the events. Gives us longer to live anyway."

Rolling his eyes, he kicks and empty, half-crushed can and sends it clattering against the pavement. "Even if we'd stayed on Alternia and it hadn't been destroyed, there's no guarantee of living into adulthood. So it's not that different from how it might have been, in some ways. It's just fucking annoying to be seconds away from claiming our prize and then lose it."