[Lapis meets Tohru's eyes again. Like, that's pretty obvious, so it ought to be obvious that things might not work the same way. But fine, humans don't necessarily know any more about her than she does about them. It takes another moment of hesitation to decide exactly what she does or doesn't want to explain to this total rando, but in the end the answer isn't nothing, so she just keeps it simple and detached.]
If a gem is broken into pieces, the pieces aren't... dead. [The word sounds even more out of place now.] If they're big enough, they'll still try to move. To form a body. They won't know who they were or what's going on, but... If a gem is ground into powder, there's still something there.
[By any measure, being brought to paradise, even a flawed paradise, is preferable. It should be an unexpected mercy for a gem who went and got herself shattered. But it's WEIRD.]
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[Lapis meets Tohru's eyes again. Like, that's pretty obvious, so it ought to be obvious that things might not work the same way. But fine, humans don't necessarily know any more about her than she does about them. It takes another moment of hesitation to decide exactly what she does or doesn't want to explain to this total rando, but in the end the answer isn't nothing, so she just keeps it simple and detached.]
If a gem is broken into pieces, the pieces aren't... dead. [The word sounds even more out of place now.] If they're big enough, they'll still try to move. To form a body. They won't know who they were or what's going on, but... If a gem is ground into powder, there's still something there.
[By any measure, being brought to paradise, even a flawed paradise, is preferable. It should be an unexpected mercy for a gem who went and got herself shattered. But it's WEIRD.]
I should still be there.