In only moments, a thousand happenings took place. The orange being could only observe from her high perch as many familiar, but not quite known, figures appeared from the dust of the ground. They had awoken individually, and yet in tandem they arrived. The cold grip that was tinted with loss only grew with each appearance, spreading from her core and constricting her body like a vice. For a reason unknown to her, she could not put a name to it like she could with the others, as if it refused to be recognized by her subconscious. As she struggled with her own feelings, a green child came and left, unheard in the chaotic cyclone that was her mind. What was this feeling, why did it bother her, and how was it connected to them-
Suddenly, two voices made themselves known, one through the air, another though her thoughts. The shrill sound of... excitement? Held within the first, it cut a swath through the air, welcoming every individual. The second, born within her mind, was firm yet smooth. Like a polished rock. The names they chose for themselves clicked into her mind, clearing the reasons for the clouded familiarity like the final piece of a puzzle. Aquamarine and Sodalite... were Gems. She could feel the statement settle within her, clear as day even before the Aquamarine made the statement. But... what was a Gem? Was that what she was as well? What all the others were? Then why did that singular being beside the named Gems not hold the same familiarity as the others? Were they something else?
She couldn't understand, couldn't grasp it within her mind. Confusion, a staple emotion for the now titled Gem, only magnified every moment. Her body slowly sunk back from whence it came, and before she knew it, her back was against the stone, knees pulled up to her chest as she shook with indecision. Under the tangerine glass, fearful amber was unseen by the world. She knew none of the "Gems" could reach her, too far up for them to go up to, so she pondered, and thought, and waited in her birthplace. Mulling over a single sentence hundreds upon hundreds of times.
'What should I do?'
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