What I want to hear on nights I can't sleep is your voice

[philoxenia]

[ ... Well, that was an absolute shitshow, wasn't it? Instead of dwelling on how she feels about everything that just happened, Mira's channeling that energy into something else--and she has a little bit of help doing it. Zerinda and Ema are here in the bar to make drinks, and Mira's brought in a ton of food that's definitely not healthy for anyone, but screw it, who cares about health right now?

Della's here to pass out invitations, too--they let everyone know there's a gathering in the bar, if they'd rather not be alone.

If you choose not to come, well... Mira's got that taken care of, too. She'll place a little container of cookies and hot cocoa outside your door. Maybe it'll help someone feel a little less alone--at least, that's what she's hoping. ]

Comments

[emberserker]

["I promise that you'll never see me again."

Anna bristles.]

Sometimes it's necessary. I suppose it would hurt even more to see that kind of overture. But what happened happened, anyway.

[lovelikeyou]

I doubt it. It's not like we knew each other.

[jeez, what's with all the Diamond fangirls up in here? none of them would have even liked her if they met her.]

But you're right. It's over now.

[emberserker]

[honestly, anna doesn't like anybody, it's true]

Until a certain loudmouth bbrings it up. I'm sure she will at every opportunity.

[lovelikeyou]

I had expected her to do it much sooner.

[emberserker]

I'm sure she has, I just prefer not to be around her. Do you know what she said? That getting annoyed with her was "taking the bait," just because I made a comment about her assuming everything should be made for her. How does that even make sense? Ridiculous.

[lovelikeyou]

She has in private, of course.

[Rose guesses she doesn't actually know if Jasper said anything to anyone else one-on-one before now? But a public shouting match is really what she expected all along, and nobody ever asked her about it...]

That's just how Homeworld Gems think. You're an organic being - of course she's right and you're wrong.

[emberserker]

Which explains all that business once she found out about the rocks. Crest Stones, weren't they?

[lovelikeyou]

[Rose nods.]

It is very interesting. Like if our gems could generate a real, organic body instead of just light.

[emberserker]

When we found Seteth, I'd at first thought he'd absorbed a magic stone. It's hardly common practice, of course, apparently far too dangerous and unstable. But it would seem the Professor's got a fixation on biology that doesn't line up with that common to this world.

[lovelikeyou]

Maybe that's part of what he's trying to study. It can't be just that, of course...

[There's more sensible ways to go about studying biology than a whole-ass murdergame.]

[emberserker]

Folding a side project in, perhaps.

[lovelikeyou]

Nova always talks about..."evolutionary biology"?

[That's what she yells at him about being in trials, anyway.]

Does that have to do with the murder part, too?

[emberserker]

Not normally, but given all his talks of studying us, who knows what's going on in his head. He certainly won't tell. He thinks he's better than us.

[lovelikeyou]

Mmmmm.

[Yeah, she's used to that.]

Maybe that'll let us get a leg up, sometime.