||Safe.||
– “ Urgent Starter Sentences: "You're safe with me." “
[uktenas-and-redbirds]
{Civilian involvement in Gem battles were always a risk but rarely actually happened.
The corrupted Gem was furious and scared, lashing out at the small Human City because it couldn’t think of anything else to do. Of course it couldn’t-- t h i n k i n g was beyond its comprehension in this form. The Crystal Gems were doing their best to stop it’s terror, to lead it out of the City before anyone got hurt, but it was dead-set on destruction and mayhem.
Garnet had taken it on herself to evacuate as much of the city as she could. Most people were understanding, if not the slightest bit belligerent, but she had managed to clear almost all of them in a matter of about twenty minutes. She was finishing up, moving gird-locked vehicles out of the way and getting civilians on their way to minimize casualties. Time was moving much faster than she wanted it to and she could hear the distant cries of battle reverberating through the alleys and roadways.
On her way to the battle, Garnet noticed something-- More accurately, someone.
They were trapped under the half-crippled floors of some sort of building, pinned in an opening too cramped to climb out of. The ground itself was trembling, sending debris and dust tumbling down the collapsed rebar and concrete. The Gem Beast, somewhere not too far from where the fusion stood, let out something between a twisted dimensions’ idea of music and an intense roar of some primal animal. Garnet had to move.
Maintaining structural integrity on a half-decimated building while trying to get someone out was a lot harder than it sounded. Every torn-free piece of wall had to be predicted like a game of Jenga, carefully removed to stop the rest from crumbling. Eventually, the fusion put herself underneath the rubble, holding it up in the palms of her gauntlets and straining upwards to make a big enough opening for the trapped civilian to get out easily.}
“Move. Quickly.
You’re safe with me.”
{She felt as though she had to confirm that she wasn’t like the Gem that was rampaging through the streets. This person didn’t need to be scared, they just needed to move.
The building groaned and bore down on Garnet with an increasing desire to be level with the ground. The fusion shifted her feet in amongst the pebbles of the former structure, supporting it like Atlas with fiery determination.}
“Go!”