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Instinctually, Rose tried to catch everything dropped, managing to save some of it from hitting the ground but mostly ending up coating herself in soil. A bit of an awkward laugh, the afterthought of just trying to bubble up everything making her look all the sillier holding a few stray 2x4 and flowers. The faux Quartz was incredibly amused by the blunder, so much so that it, at least, managed to cut through some of the new fear she felt with Spinel so bewildered by her presence.
There were other Rose Quartz..? It was a surprise they were alright after all these years, let alone out and about here, too. It was no wonder the shock and awe wasn’t quite as extreme with her here. Though it came with the issue… roll with the lie or admit. Of course she thought lying was the simpler solution, but it was Spinel…
“You really should be more careful with this stuff, Spinel. Going to give an old Gem a scare.”
Right, just don’t confirm nor deny. The safest option, in a way. She sifts through the soil, procuring the flowers before they could get too smothered in the pile, acting surprisingly casual for being the spitting image of a long-gone Gem.
“Oh, golly- careful, miss-” She snaps out of her stunned state once she sees the ‘stranger’ covered in soil... but her words catch in her throat at that smile. That familiar tone. It... it couldn’t be her. It couldn’t! Rose was gone- her gem, the core of her being, part of Steven, now. She’d seen it!
But... the way she was talking- it wasn’t like the other Rose Quartzes that had once visited. Memories flash in her head, memories of that same exact smile, soothing words after one of the messes she’d frequently caused.
“Ha... haha... yeah... s-say, miss, we... haven’t met before, have we? There aren’t a lotta other Spinels around, after all...” So few that, as far as she knew, she was the only one. Spinels were expensive, difficult to create, and made with a very specific purpose- to play. Something that the other diamonds had little interest in, until very recently, and so little reason to use so many resources on.
And then, there was the other thing this Rose had said- an ‘old gem.’ Hadn’t the Roses all been bubbled this whole time? She should still be pretty new, technically...
