Silence and tranquility, it was nice while it lasted, all Topaz had to do was sit there and bask in the nearby nutrients. In a nutshell the biggest reason Topaz didn't come out sooner was because she felt safer that way in the ground ,but one can only stay for so long. In this case longer then a lot of the other gems in this barren sector of the kindergarten where Topaz had finally emerged. She was scared but also lonely and after a while loneliness beat out her fear of the world around her. 

As she felt the ground around her bend for her need for freedom she couldn't help but wonder exactly how long she had been there. The ground gave away much easier than she expected not that she had an opinion to go off. It was just surprising that the small piece of home she had remembered for her whole life if you could even call it that gave away with almost no struggle, and to think it held her entire being. 

When her eyes opened for the first time and gazed around the desolate empty place that stood around her she questioned why she saw no one and why everything looked so old while she was just now taking her first steps into the abandoned portion of the kindergarten. Shaken not stirred the partially frighted gem took her first steps out into the dry nutrient depleted ground. [color=fff79a]"Oh my"[/color] she muttered as she saw the poor lifeless area around her almost begging for companionship, a feeling she could knew all to well. She hastily started moving toward the closest thing that she could only hope was an exit. Hopping to find a friendly presence of some sort.