[John doesn't return the hug quite as strongly as Dave does, but he still makes it tight and warm, and he has decided he isn't going to be the first one to let go. Sure, maybe he had only hugged a Dave an hour or so ago, but he gets to stay with this Dave. That counts for something.]

I'm sorry! Things just got sort of crazy for a bit. And I didn't really figure out how to control the windghosting until recently. But now we can hang out and have all kinds of friendship adventures in person without uncontrollable teleportation or death.

[It's about now that John looks over Dave's shoulder at the human he had previously been sitting on. He doesn't recognize who he is immediately, but Jade had mentioned Karkat is a human now, and who else speaks like that?]

Oh my god, Karkat? Is that you? Oh man, it's weird to see you all human-colored now.