As Dave stood in Karkat's respite block, staring at the small, sleeping figure, he immediately regretted what he did.

A few hours earlier, Dave and Terezi were sitting in the Seer of Mind's respiteblock, thinking of something to do when…

"Hey, how about we prank Vantas?"

"I thought pranking was a John thing."

"Well, yeah, but he's not here, and Karkat is the perfect target." Dave smirked at Terezi, who cackled a bit. "Let's give him a scare. What's he afraid of?"

Terezi thought for a bit. "Well….Lots of things, actually. Let's wait until he falls asleep and I can use my new Mind powers to freak him out." Terezi's grin grew to her ears.

"Okay, but do you know when he goes to sleep?" Dave questioned. Terezi bit her lip.

"Alright, I haven't thought of that. Karkles usually only sleeps if he's knocked out, or if he's stayed up so long that he'll just fall asleep anywhere." she said. Dave sighed.

"I'm too bored to wait for him to fall asleep on his own, so I'll just knock him out." he said, standing up. He went to the hall, followed closely by Terezi, to search for the tiny ball of anger. They soon found him in the Lab, typing on his husktop. Dave smirked and Terezi gave him a thumbs up.

Dave darted into the Lab and hit the back of Karkat's neck with the side of his hand, effectively knocking the other Knight unconscious. He picked up the troll and started walking to his room.

Dave was glad Terezi was walking behind him, and not reading his mind, because when he looked at the smaller, sleeping troll in his arms, he thought it was the strangest thing how calm Karkat looked when he slept. Karkat Vantas? Calm? Calm is not a word you put in a sentence that also contains the word Karkat. The Knight of Time studied the face that he had never been able to get a good look of.

When he was asleep, the calmness in Karkat's face revealed things that the angry face he wore while awake usually hid. For example, the pinkish tint on Karkat's cheeks, just under his eyes. Speaking of his eyes, both had a thick black line running along the bottoms of them, most likely from lack of sleep. And they weren't figuratively black, either. They weren't even a dark grey. The dark circles under Karkat's eyes were literally blacker than the troll's thick hair, which Dave noticed was softer than he ever thought.

"We're here, Dave." Terezi said, her voice punching Dave in the face to get him out of the forest of his thoughts. Wait. He ought to use that in one of his raps. He quickly memorized that, then pushed his way into Karkat's respiteblock.