There's always a lighthouse

[wheremst]

And just like that, you wake up in the basement of a lighthouse in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There's a circle of 25 pods in the middle of the room, and two more in a room off to the side, and you can imagine who is in which.

An elevator to the side of the room leads up to the ground floor (or to the first sub-basement, if you want to check out the machine that brought you here), where you can for the first time in weeks look out a window and see the sky. Its a beautiful sunny day, with a strong breeze on the grassy ground of the island where the lighthouse stands. Have you ever been this happy to hear seagulls?

You're free. Whatever comes next, you're free and you won. Take some time to relish your victory, won't you? Reunite with friends you thought you had lost, go forth and just... well, enjoy this.

Comments

[lovelikeyou]

[cool, cool, let's just sit here together and be miserable piles of secrets forever]

It's worth trying. [She will absolutely take it as a personal failing regardless, but you know there's no stopping that.] My powers are back already. They feel the same as ever, now -

[She'll lift a hand and just like, make some flowers bloom in the grass for funsies.]

[fivestagegod]

[...Oh holy shit.]

...That is really awesome. I don't know if any of the ones I've done stuff with are still around, but I'd actually want to know what you think of them, if we find any.

[lovelikeyou]

[Rose chuckles, just a bit.]

I don't know how much I could tell you. It's just instinct, really...there aren't any plants on Gem-controlled planets.

[So of course she never even knew she could do any of this until she went to Earth. She'd been quite free to claim that as a Rose Quartz power, because who ever could have known Pink Diamond did something like that, too?]

But I'd like to see them.