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[stickupherforehead]

Who: Pearl and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: 6/19 till shuffle

[sleeping Pearl kinda looks dead. If anything, it's probably because she's not moving at all. Or breathing, for that matter. And when she regains consciousness, it's all at once. No gradual waking up for her.

In fact, as soon as her eyes pop open, she's scrambling out of the bed, getting tangled in the bedsheets, and falling onto the floor right onto her face with a loud thud.

A hissing intake of breath, and then Pearl is turning around and staring in surprise at...the bed.]

Sleeping? But that's not...I've never -

[and then she finally sees the giant windows and more importantly, the fact that she's in space. Oh and also that she's probably been kidnapped or something like that.

..............]

GARNET! AMETHYST!!!

[and she's tearing off the bedsheets and scrambling to her feet. Don't hyperventilate. Stay calm. Don't freak out. This doesn't look like Gem based technology. Then again, she barely knows what modern Gem technology looks like. But, but it could also be some completely unknown alien species who had somehow kidnapped her and taken her hostage and of which she knows absolutely nothing about!!

.....] STEVEN!!

Comments

[stickupherforehead]

Ugh. I never thought being left to our own devices would be so annoying.

[footsteps, and then...those are probably the sounds of a certain Gem trying to take apart something in the room.]

[bolder]

Hey, what are you doing? [Toph pauses and listens.] Are you breaking things? I wanna help!!

[stickupherforehead]

No. [there's a heavy thunk as Pearl pushes a treadmill onto its side.]

I'm simply - [and she's trying to find a panel so she can get at the parts inside] - repurposing a few parts.

[bolder]

You're breaking things. [Said so definitively.] What're you gonna use them for?

[stickupherforehead]

To get out. [at the very least, she'll settle for leaving this room. Good luck with that.]

I almost built a spaceship out of old, human scrap, so it can't be that hard. [new, alien stuff-in-the-process-of-being-turned-into-scrap has to be easier to work with.]

[bolder]

Yeah, let me know how that goes. If you make it to a planet or whatever, send back some rocks.

[stickupherforehead]

What do rocks have to do with anything?

[she's already sounding half distracted as she starts taking things apart]

[bolder]

I'm an earthbender, and I miss earth. [Duh, Pearl.] So if I can get some, it'd be great.

[stickupherforehead]

[she pauses in her work for a moment]

You...bend the Earth?

[bolder]

It means I can control it. I can do the same with metal, but I do miss earth, too. [A shrug.]

[stickupherforehead]

....ooooh. I think I know what you mean. [Pearl can do it to sand, to some extent.]

How long have you been here? Have you been in space all this time?

[bolder]

I've only been here a couple weeks, but as far as I know, yeah, we have. I think they might have visited a planet or two? [She makes a shrugging motion.]

[stickupherforehead]

And nobody simply tried to leave? I suppose the planets could have been inhospitable, or there are some other compelling factors...

[weird]

[bolder]

Like I said, only here for a couple of weeks. I've got noooo idea.