"...No," he admits after a few moments of hesitation. Death isn't something unfamiliar to him - he's seen the aftermath of it. Yet, it's always been Gems. A shattering is different. His mom's 'death' was different.

"Not like this. Gems just go poof when you defeat them, and we can take the home and keep them safe... they don't look like this."

He looks in the direction of the dead animals again. How much worse would it be if these were unquestionably people?