Karkat calms progressively, though his frown is still set, and his mind still worried. Even without prompting, there's always the possibility that the Gamemakers could bring in yet more of his friends--and people besides, from his world or others, who probably deserve this no more than anyone else. It's cruel and it's unfair, and it bugs him, and he has a feeling it will continue to do so.

For now, though, he leans back against the wall and sighs. "That's the worst thing about it. Even if you try your best and save what you can and do what the timeline is 'supposed' to contain, there's still going to be people who couldn't be saved. And it's so arbitrary--a person has to die this way, at this time, in this place. Not this other person, not some other way. It has to go just so, and it's stupid."