Blue Topaz slept in the soil, her dreams dim and cold. She wandered the dark alleys of her mind, the sounds of civilization distant and screaming, but her immediate area was silent, and dead. She walked with haste, not knowing where she was going, but drawn in a direction none the less, reeled in by an unshakable feeling of ennui; someone needed her, and she needed someone. She came out onto a major road, abandoned like the rest of the area, streetlights casting pools of light endlessly in either direction. Across the street from her was a dumpy looking motel, it's vacancy sign flickering. This was where she was supposed to go. As she approached the door she could almost make out voices on the other side, muffled, vague and shouting. She pushed open the double doors and burst forth into the conscious world, sandy soil falling off her face.
She blinked in the light and took in her surroundings. Gone were the darkened back alleys, replaced now with a calm, white sandy beach, the waves rolling calmly over it, reflecting the bright sunny sky back in fractals. A bird cried as it circled and she could hear the voices, the same ones from her dream in the distance. She rose from the soil, unburying herself and flickering a few feet to her left, leaving the residual soil behind. She approached the other four gems and raised her hand in greeting.
[color=47B5DA]"Hello."[/color] She said, without hesitation. [color=47B5DA]"I'm new around here. Do you know when the orientation tour starts?"[/color]