[Dirk makes a split-second decision on how to handle Karkat's attitude.]

Fair enough. We can just set aside time for separate Dirk-Karkat bonding festivities. Let me know if you need me to draw you any ships.

[Really, the vague sense that Karkat is being a vaguely provocative by default feels like a muted down version of uu's approach to communication. Dirk is familiar enough with how to roll with that.

He also is taking care of the pieces he has selected for salvage, working some of them into smaller pieces so they can fit into his poor, hampered sylladex better.]