[Hey, he knows that voice! Not well yet, and it's not the voice he was listening for, but it will do. And when he looks at her properly--]

Oh thank god you're not sooty and evil anymore.

[Not to mention alive, from the color in her eyes. He strides on over, speaking as he does, until he's stood before her with hands out gesturing across his words.]

I could only handle one round of that smoothly, and I have already had two. What happened? How did you break the mind control? And where's everyone else? I need to find Aradia, or maybe Feferi--and then I need to get out of here, because if Kanaya wasn't enough to stop Gamzee, then that is two potential corpses waiting for me and I just can't deal with that right now.