[ Here's a warning: being an alien, Karkat's going to say a lot of stuff that sounds like it was lifted wholesale from an engineering manual and, perhaps, run through Google Translate. Kurt's ability to understand words based on their context is going to serve him extremely well here. ]

[ The alien plants a hand on his hip and cocks his head to the side, shrugging. Ok. Apparently this guy can't exactly argue with that logic. An abundance of caution isn't paranoia if something IS actually out to get you! It's the rest that Kurt says that makes his expression soften into a little less suspicion and more open curiosity. ]

Are you telling me you can actually disappear?

[ A pause. ]

Sounds like falsified misinformation intended for public consumption.