Intro Overflow: May

[moustre]

Intro Log: May, Overflow

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[alienwear]

Peridot leans in and squints at the picture, rubbing her chin.

"Hm... Interesting. Although this doesn't technically disprove my assertion that my mirror is the most intricate and important looking one," she adds slyly before moving on. "Obviously the mirrors are significant to our arrival here but if we somehow came through them, and these 'fae' had anything to do with it, why would the mirrors be up at the coven and not with the creatures responsible?"

[starseedling]

"Well..." Steven says, coyly. "A certain green gem I know happens to be part of mine, so it must be pretty special, too."

Okay, but, business. He thinks for a moment, and then shrugs his shoulder.

"I dunno... but maybe it's something like how the Diamonds could interact with technology on Earth. Some of Homeworld's tech was remote, and maybe all it took was something to trigger it? The Coven doesn't seem to know a lot about the mirror house works..."

[alienwear]

Stop that Steven, you're gonna make her blush.

She huffs, brushing past that first comment. "I suppose that does make a certain amount of sense... Although none of the tech I've seen here so far has given me the impression of being advanced enough to achieve something like that. Then again, I might be underestimating this place." It wouldn't be the first time she's done something like that. "Either way, it sounds like a solid lead, if we can follow up on it. Whatever gets us out of here and back to Beach City faster. This place seems nice enough, but..."

Peridot pauses, glances around briefly and makes a weird noise by sucking in a breath through her teeth. "Do you feel... Off here? Physically?"

[starseedling]

Steven falls quiet for a moment, hesitant. If Peridot were a bit more familiar with humans, it'd probably be obvious how tired he looks. He just wasn't sure what to make of it at first, and now he's not sure he wants to worry her.

"...Yeah," he finally admits. "I don't know what it is, but I've been feeling... bad, since I got here. Like I'm exhausted even though I'm not doing anything."

[alienwear]

"Really..." She stares at him for a second, hand on her chin, not quite sure what to make of that information. "I can't say that I feel exhausted, but... It's almost like my gem is having difficult adjusting my physical form to properly match the gravity and atmospheric pressure in this world."

[starseedling]

"Oh yeah..." Steven says, thoughtfully. "You guys usually do that automatically, don't you?" That's troubling, that it's not just him. "...I guess neither of our gems know what to do with this place. That's probably why our powers aren't working..."

[alienwear]

Peridot goes rigid momentarily, a blank look on her face, because apparently this is news to her.

Without another word, she turns on one heel and marches over to a nearby food stand, staring with an unsettling intensity at the metal skillet the proprietor of said stand is using to make some delicious crepes. The vendor gives her an odd look as this weird little green woman thrusts one hand out in his direction and grits her teeth, trying to beckon the skillet to her open palm.

Naturally, it doesn't move. Peridot stops, and stares despondently at her hands.

"...Steven I don't want to be here anymore," she announces loudly.

[starseedling]

"Oh... Right... I guess it would be easier for you to not notice..." Steven says, laughing nervously. Having one main power instead of a ridiculous cavalcade of them makes a difference.

"It's... no so bad, right? We both survived without them before..."

[alienwear]

Peridot grimaces at him, hesitating to answer. To her credit, she is trying very, very hard not to freak out right now, but. She loves her metal powers? She spent so much of her life thinking she didn't even have any powers, that much is true, but. That kind of just makes losing the only one that she has ever had feel like an even bigger blow.

"...Yeah! Sure! It's! fine! We'll... We'll get by," she manages to grit out after a moment, tone strained as she tries to force that grimace into a grin.

[starseedling]

That's not very convincing. Steven considers going along with it for a moment, but ultimately changes his mind.

"No... It's okay, Peridot," he says, carefully. "I get it. Back before I met you, I spent years wondering if I'd ever have any powers at all." He rubs the back of his neck uncomfortably. "It feels really weird, having it all suddenly be gone... especially when we would really use the leg up."

[alienwear]

She drops the act and promptly deflates with a miserable sounding whimper, relieved to have his understanding.

"It would be one thing if I still felt like my engineering expertise were of any use here, but all the technology in this world seems to run off entirely different principles! Without that and without my metal powers, what use am?"

[starseedling]

He frowns sympathetically, but quickly looks for the bright side. It's hard to imagine Peridot ever being useless.

"I bet you can figure this stuff out! You just need some time to learn, right? You figured out all kinds of Earth stuff just by experimenting!"

[alienwear]

"I suppoooooose," Peridot admits reluctantly, in that drawn out groaning tone she always slips into when she's depressed. Steven has a point, but, she probably just needs a few minutes to mourn the loss of her powers before she can adapt.