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[ after a week of constantly bumping into shit and having to get people to lead him around from place to place, karkat vantas has to resort to desperate measures. it's a struggle even getting the tablet to work for him, and at first, he doesn't seem to notice it's recording, continuing to frown and fiddle with it for a little while, before he begins to speak. ]

So. [ one might notice that his pupils are unusually dilated, only the faintest ring of grey iris visible around the edges. ] I'm going to make this brief, if just because I'm only half convinced this thing is actually recording and I'm not just yodeling into the void, but thanks to the astonishingly warm welcome one of your residents gave me, I'm blind. And as I'm not the resident No Eyes Mcgee among my social circle, and I've walked into enough door frames over the past week that I'll be very surprised if I haven't sustained permanent brain injury, I'm requesting that one of you make yourself some vague parody of useful and fix it.

[ there is a pause, before, reluctantly; ]

It was a dragon, if that makes any difference.

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What is this, is blinding people a trend among your kind, is this actually a common thing, what kind of past incidents are we talking about? [ is his incredulous response. ] Okay, well, if it's really that much of a concern, I can confirm that it definitely wasn't you. This time. Ugh.

I've been told to go to the clinic, and I've been offered a seeing eye something, I'm assuming human, so this broadcast hasn't entirely been a bust, but I'm waiting in hopes of someone actually fixing my problem. It's probably far too optimistic of me, but whatever, a troll can dream.

I am not sure what is a trend; we are a varied people, and our differences clashes amongst our own more often than other races. So far I have been expected to act like a beast such as eating virgins, setting people on fire, eating more people, and so on and so forth. I have, however, trampled people by accident during my stay at Exsilium when I was very young, which didn't help matters.

Are there any other trolls such as yourself familiar with the healing arts?

I don't need healing as much as I need spellbreaking. She didn't gouge my eyes out and eat them. She just waved her hand, and they stopped working.

[ That narrows things down a bit. There are two female dragons - that he knows of, anyway, it is possible there are more dragons hiding their real identities while he was away - that he knows, and it wouldn't surprise him one bit if the black dragon is the one responsible. ]

I do not specialize in magic that modifies the body, so I am afraid I won't be much use to you. [ What he won't say is that, well, he doesn't have much of spell casting abilities at all, other than handling magical objects. ] I think I know someone who might be able to help, but I will need to ask first.

[ Would Crucible be helpful? Since this is dragon magic, hopefully some time in his world's future magic has been restored to the metallic dragons. ]