||Amalgamation||
{Garnet had been trying to keep her head on straight since she’d seen it-- the mass of twisted limbs s h r i e k i n g in the depths of the Kindergarten. The Synthetic Fusion of Homeworld design, the punishment for the Rebellion; The absolute abomination of non-consent that made her feel like her every shimmer of her illusionary light was a mistake.
They’d gotten the amalgam shards desynchronized and bubbled back to the Temple House but that was as long as Garnet stayed with the group. Holding herself back from her absolute terror had been her main priority while she was commanding her Team. They needed her to be strong and guide them, else they would be lost amidst all of the confusion. None of them had known this was happening. None of them had known that their former allies were being tormented in such a way.
The Warp Pad took her deep into the forest, as it had every other time she went to visit her newfound friend. The walk was a blur, a hazy rush of greenery and dark, moonlit skies. All she could hope was that Howl hadn’t left for patrol yet. She needed confirmation that not everything that came out of the Kindergarten was painful, a confirmation that she didn’t have to wear a proverbial mask around. Amethyst was too innocent. Dropping the weight of everything the fusion had just seen on her would result in terrible, terrible things.
Garnet wasn’t even fully present as she climbed her way up the front steps to the smaller gem’s home and brought her knuckles up to the wood. Her mind was elsewhere, future and past, scrambling in an attempt to make sense of everything.}
“ Please be home...”