"What, you think if we just go up and ask someone where to find the rooms they torture people in they'll be able to show us the way? Is that like a commonly known location around here? Because all I've been hearing is how no one is able to escape from this place, and being able to just walk in and rescue someone would kinda go against that."

That was certainly a defeatest way to look at things, wasn't it? Perhaps he shouldn't have been so mean about it, but Karkat commonly suffered from the inability to filter his thoughts before speaking them. Sadly, knowing this didn't keep him from doing it often anyway.

He looked just a little apologetic after that, mostly due to how stupidly innocent they both seemed. "Whatever. If you want to go back there, then fine. I don't know what all he had anyway. I don't just go poking around in other people's stuff."

Usually.

"...And then maybe you can sit down." He raised an eyebrow at the girl. "You look like shit."