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WHAT in person
WHERE Tidy Living Apartments
WHEN Day 132

[A very unusual-looking cutie is standing in the foyer of the Tidy Living apartments today. You definitely haven't seen them before. They are repeatedly pressing the elevator button, then jumping when it opens]

But I don't get it... I know the ding means get in, but who's opening and closing the doors...? Is someone here raising and lowering it? Ahh, and when I went upstairs, it was completely incomprehensible...

[Help them out?]

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'Help' might be a little strong, but...

I mean, I don't mind making the attempt, yeah? No sense in leaving a kid wondering what's going on.

A 'kid'?

... yeah? You hardly look older than a teenager.

I don't know what those are, but if you mean age, I'm well over a thousand?

...

I'm sorry?

I mean, it is what it is?

You're like... a person, right?

I would hope so??? I'm a gem. Are you, um... a 'human'?

Yeah, of course I'm human?

[Kind of blurts out] You're not literally a rock, right?

Yes, of course I am?

[Looks. So amazed. ]

Uh. Look. I'm sure this is super weird but I've never met a talking gem before-- can I touch you? Like. Just your hand or something.

Oh, that's fine?

[offers their hand. Real hard, since their 'skin' is just painted powder on stone]

[ very gently rubs a bit off their fingertip when she notices that, eyes wide. ]

... diamond? Man. The price they'd pay for you back home... you're so cool. And cold! How do you move so smoothly if you're this hard?

Oh, you're soft!

Ahh, a price, like, for pieces, or, my body?? Um, I just move. I guess technically my inclusions move? But um...

Yeah, humans are all skin and organs. Do you have animals back home?

Oh. Uh, yeah, diamonds are real expensive for like jewelry and stuff... the bigger and clearer they are the more they cost.

Inclusions, is that like blood for you?

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There are some animals, yes. Not many. Insects and sea creatures, mostly?

...I really would rather not be broken down for jewelry, if it's all the same to you? And no, Inclusions are... well, anything that's in a gemstone, but we mean, microscopic organisms trapped in our structures? They provide us our lives.

Oh, stars, no. I'd never. That's fascinating, though... that there's stuff that make even stones alive.

[ taking a step back from them. ]

Sorry again. My name's Shura. You have one too, right?

Ah, well, it doesn't happen very often. It's hard for us to form and it takes a long time...

My name's Diamond. Please feel free to call me Dia.

Oh, simple. And cute! Nice to meet you, Dia.

I think they're pretty straightforward names. It's nice to meet you too, Shura.

There's more of you?

Not here, but where I came from...?

Like, all different kinds, or just diamonds?

Ah, there are three diamonds, but we're not all the same type. It's me, Yellow Diamond, and, ah, Bort. Other than that, lots of kinds of gems. Red Beryl, and Phosphophyllite, and Cinnabar, and Euclase... So on, to almost thirty.