[ Rose must already know it's bad news, good news wouldn't came with such urgency. Someone else could have delivered good news, but bad news has to be Kanaya. If any messenger is shot, it should be her. Of course, she's also the one just as affected by it as Rose, so she knows how receiving the news will feel. But how does she say it? There's no way to mince or soften it. ]
We're doomed, you and I. We have perhaps a years, once we return, before an altercation occurs that ends with our deaths at the hands of Her Imperious Condescension. But it...it wasn't only us, the only two to survive, to my knowledge, are Roxy and John. [ Even if Terezi was a "probably" and Roxy didn't say a word about Dave. But if he were still alive, she's sure Roxy would have mentioned it. ]
I don't know the specifics beyond that. John apparently developed some skill at traveling through time and...fixed it, creating a new timeline with favorable conditions. It's this new timeline that Dave and Karkat originate from. [ Is there any point to mentioning Vriska? Rose never really knew her very well, it wouldn't really be relevant to her. Or how Karkat pretty much blurted it out to her, Rose doesn't need to know that, Kanaya's not the one here to be comforted, miserable as she looks.
Her hand reaches across the table, but doesn't quite make it the whole way, stopping a few inches short of Rose's. It's a difficult internal conflict, feeling that taking her hand would be appropriate, perhaps necessary, but also that she isn't allowed to touch her. Not after what she did last time she had. ]
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We're doomed, you and I. We have perhaps a years, once we return, before an altercation occurs that ends with our deaths at the hands of Her Imperious Condescension. But it...it wasn't only us, the only two to survive, to my knowledge, are Roxy and John. [ Even if Terezi was a "probably" and Roxy didn't say a word about Dave. But if he were still alive, she's sure Roxy would have mentioned it. ]
I don't know the specifics beyond that. John apparently developed some skill at traveling through time and...fixed it, creating a new timeline with favorable conditions. It's this new timeline that Dave and Karkat originate from. [ Is there any point to mentioning Vriska? Rose never really knew her very well, it wouldn't really be relevant to her. Or how Karkat pretty much blurted it out to her, Rose doesn't need to know that, Kanaya's not the one here to be comforted, miserable as she looks.
Her hand reaches across the table, but doesn't quite make it the whole way, stopping a few inches short of Rose's. It's a difficult internal conflict, feeling that taking her hand would be appropriate, perhaps necessary, but also that she isn't allowed to touch her. Not after what she did last time she had. ]
I'm sorry.