[This is, Aradia is pretty sure, what friends do. At least, she's sort of pieced out that ice cream makes everything better, and she'd argue that it can only improve a situation, so.

And she is old hat at this sort of conversation anyway. This is not even a surprising train of logic, this is the Karkat Vantas Maneuver.]

There are always plenty of things you could have done. There are always plenty of things anyone could have done. But the one thing you couldn't have done is known it would happen. So why are you worried?