Your voice,

[mirrortide]

Who: Lapis Lazuli & Various
When: April Dream Event!
Where: , various memories!
What: Backdated meetings & Memory share!
Warnings: Various Trauma's and not so traumas!

Closed & open prompts below. hmu through PM or at yakule!

Comments

[mirrortide]

I can't really tell you any more about how it works, since... I wasn't made for that. I made the canyons for Kindergartens, but I never used them to make gems myself. Peridot would probably know more than me about it.

[A pause.]

I really doubt humans are capable of the same level of stuff as us Gems though. You're too different.

[unyieldingmarch]

I don't know anything about your biology, or about your world, so I won't speculate.

[Better to just avoid that possible conflict right now.]

...How is everything with Lorenz? It's not a memory thing, I just worry about him at times.

[mirrortide]

It's... Alright. I think.

[She doesn't know, honestly. Things are extremely weird now that Peridot is back.]

We get along, if that's what you mean.

[unyieldingmarch]

That's...not quite what I meant. I'm just wondering if he feels okay. I'm not worried about you two getting along, I just worry that he's overworking himself. He had a habit of that, when we were younger. That's all.

[mirrortide]

Over...working? [That's just not a concept she's familiar with, as a Gem.] Humans can work too much?

[She knows they need sleep and the like, and to eat, but Lorenz seems to do those things normally.]

[unyieldingmarch]

Sometimes people don't sleep enough, yes. They just get caught up in things and gain stress and don't take time to rest.

[Overachievers exist.]

[mirrortide]

... Well, he does sleep, but how much should humans sleep?

[unyieldingmarch]

Seven to eight hours, usually. I'm mostly asking if he feels tired through your bond.

[mirrortide]

... Tired? [Oh. Oh dear. That's a thing that happens to humans, but it's not something she's familiar with herself.]

Sorry, I don't... know what that feels like.

[unyieldingmarch]

Oh. Well. Then just keep an eye on him for me, please?

[mirrortide]

But... He's a human adult, isn't he? [She hedges, carefully, like she's not sure about it, because honestly, humans are so... finicky.] Aren't they good at taking care of themselves?

[unyieldingmarch]

Sometimes, we think that work is more important than sleep. It's one of our many failings.

[So no.]

Just. Take care of him for me?

[mirrortide]

[... Take care of him? That's... kind of an odd thing to say, and Lapis really doesn't understand it. Doesn't understand how Edelgard could look at her memories as she has and think that Lapis is capable of taking care of an entire human.]

... I guess? I don't think he'd be harder to take care of than Pumpkin.

[She says, as a joke to try and quash the weird feeling in the pit of her stomach.]

[unyieldingmarch]

[She is an ancient and mysterious creature. Surely she can manage one goofy deer.]

Pumpkin is your...pet?

[mirrortide]

[She's a rock equivalent of a nervous chihuahua in a thunder-jacket. Be kind.]

Oh, yeah. She's a pumpkin. She's friendly though.

[As Edelgard can tell, gems are extremely creative when it comes to naming things.]

[unyieldingmarch]

I see.

[She doesn't see, but then Lapis is strange enough.]

Do you have many pets?

[mirrortide]

No, just her. But she was grown because we thought that we could turn vegetables into soldiers. That is, we thought vegetables would be sentient. Turns out they aren't.

[unyieldingmarch]

Right. I suppose that would be true since they lack brains.

[That explains that!]

[mirrortide]

...

What's that?

[unyieldingmarch]

It's an organ in humans that allows us the capacity for sapience. Animals have a form of it, but it's different. All theirs does is control basic functions like the instinctual need to eat and sleep and survive.