Dave looks from Carolina's hand to Karkat's obviously anxious face, sighs loudly through his nose, takes both their hands, and bumps their knuckles together.]
There, greeting secured. Congratulations, you both pass the first gauntlet of human interaction, it's almost like we're all here to chow and have fun. So what's good here, where do we sit?
[He addresses the last to Carolina, because dammit, he's not gonna make any of this a big deal, Karkat is going to get used to Dave's friends if Dave has to aggressively sprain his nonchalance muscles making it happen.]
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Dave looks from Carolina's hand to Karkat's obviously anxious face, sighs loudly through his nose, takes both their hands, and bumps their knuckles together.]
There, greeting secured. Congratulations, you both pass the first gauntlet of human interaction, it's almost like we're all here to chow and have fun. So what's good here, where do we sit?
[He addresses the last to Carolina, because dammit, he's not gonna make any of this a big deal, Karkat is going to get used to Dave's friends if Dave has to aggressively sprain his nonchalance muscles making it happen.]