Life on Earth was... interesting, to say the least. And A6Y meant it both in the best of ways- and not so good ways.
It wasn’t the the fact that the whole planet could be considered rural, or even savage by Homeworld standards- though certainly, with how easily one got dirty from the soil and gathering dust, A6Y didn’t think too favourably of it in that aspect. No, as far as the whole uncivilised part went, A6Y didn’t mind; what it meant was that there was plenty of space to hide when one really wanted to be alone, and no-one really needed her to guard this and that.
It was the way the humans seemed to look down on her.
She tried to convince herself that it wasn’t their fault- not completely at least. After all, the Ruby came to realize that with her size, she was no bigger than average human pebble- children, they called them- and that certainly caused some issues when she ventured out alone and at night, either getting stopped by concerned adults who seemed to think she lost her ‘parents’, or got sneered at by others, for her supposed ‘young age’.
(They laughed at her when she snarled she was well over five thousands years old)
Ruby was a gem. Fully grown gem at that. It was humiliating, but she could bite her displeasure back, knowing it will just take some time for the humans to get used to her. Though for some reason, she was sure her insistence at holding Sheena’s hand whenever they walked down the street wasn’t helping. It wouldn’t be problem if she was closer size to the female, she supposed; but as she was now, she got mistaken more and more for Sheena’s supposed young, and she could see how awkward those talks made the woman.
(It was perhaps that what made her gave up that close contact, even though she missed it dearly)
Another thing that bothered her was a word she heard behind her back one day, whispered with malicious mockery. She twisted to face whoever said it, but they were long gone by then, and she was only left with an upsetting confusion, as she had no idea what the word’s purpose was.
When she returned back to the temple, she asked the half-quartz Steven what the word ‘ugly’ meant. She didn’t understand his frown and was rather taken aback by his sharp demand of where she heard it.
She didn’t get the answers that day, as the Steven left rather upset, so she was forced to rely on searching for the meaning herself-
-And when she got the result, she rather wished she didn’t.
She stared at the two definitions with a rather hollow feeling in her gut before slamming the thick book shut and rubbing her cheeks angrily, pretending those were just raindrops that rolled down them.
Did... Did Sheena think Ruby was ugly? Was that why-
A6Y was unsure how she was going to finish that thought, but for some reason it upset her even more, leaving her in subdued and morose mood even as she went to meet the woman for their usual ‘night out’.
