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 Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 5:00 am
Traverse here with respect and caution, gems. The Temple houses all of the elites: those of Blue Diamonds court. Some say there is a warp pad that sends the nobles directly to the Diamond herself. For those aristocrats in our midst, the Temple is a safe haven away from Homeworld's less savory gems. Here, you can spend time with the cream of the crop
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2016 11:16 pm
xxคquαɱαгเɳεxx▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████ ▐ █ ███████ ██████ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx❝It's all or nothing.❞╔══════════════╗
♢Location: The Temple
♢Mood: Fair
╚══════════════╝ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Aquamarine was finally done with an extensive project, and relaxing in the Blue court's temple. Well, relaxing as much as the higher-ups allowed it. The previous task was exhausting, and required so much out of Aqua that she had to go as far as to use her water powers to put it in action. As a technician, she was used to doing multiple projects at once, but this was something bigger that would help the Blue Diamond's court to advance technologically. It might even help with a conquering of another planet. It was something Aqua was proud of. And she was the head of that team! Now, she sat against a low wall in the Temple, scrolling through various files on her device with a flick of her finger. It wasn't until a service pearl came up to her that Aqua had realized that she had been sitting at that wall for an hour. Loitering. Aqua was better than that. She stood up with a grunt, dusting herself off. She took her stance as a higher up. Although Aquamarine was a high rank, she couldn't be compared to the best of the elites. She showed that in her stance.
"What do you need from me?" Aquamarine's voice wasn't particularly soft, but it wasn't as harsh as it could have been either. She fortunately didn't take her role as seriously as some higher-ups might. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████▐ █ ███████ ██████ █████
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2016 11:51 pm
• 𝐏 𝐄 𝐀 𝐑 𝐋 •
ʟᴏᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ: ʙʟᴜᴇ ᴅɪᴀᴍᴏɴᴅ's ᴛᴇᴍᴘʟᴇ ᴄᴏᴜʀᴛ || ᴍᴏᴏᴅ: ᴅɪsᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇᴅ
Pearl's feet kept up a steady pace as she walked throughout the great halls of the temple; the silence broken with each step that echoed throughout. Her head was bowed to the unfolded slip of paper within her hand, powder blue eyes scanning over the scrawl of gem writing. Giving her head a little shake, Pearl refolded the paper back into fours, and clutched it tight.
"Honestly, I have no idea what afflictions you have with that poor Sapphire," Pearl said aloud to no one in particular. "She made one small, snide remark in jest and you find it a need to spread such blasphemous rumors? Sapphire made no mention of being sympathetic to the colonization of Earth! How can you imply such a thing? Goodness, and to be associated—"
Light pooled into the dark corridor from the court of the temple, herself just mere steps from entering to deliver her mistress's message. Sighing, Pearl straightened herself; chin high, back taut, gait easy, and then walked out to the Aquamarine matching her respectful stance with one of her own. When she stopped before the other gem, shut eyes flicked open once to register her, before Pearl gave a bow in greeting.
"Dear Aquamarine," she said, her tone steady and practiced. "I come bearing a message from my mistress. A message, that perchance, you may consider." Pearl raised her hand and presented it to her. "Would you like to read it?"
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 12:28 am
xxคquαɱαгเɳεxx▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████ ▐ █ ███████ ██████ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx❝It's all or nothing.❞╔══════════════╗
♢Location: The Temple
♢Mood: Inquisitive
╚══════════════╝ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Aquamarine looked at the note the pearl held in front of her, frowning just a bit before taking the it, and signalling for Pearl to go back into a normal stance. It always felt a just the slightest bit uncomfortable when someone bowed to her.
"And who might your mistress be?" Aqua unfolded the paper, and scanned the paper for a name, though unable to find one on the page. She didn't recall asking for any supplies from the Blue Diamond District; no, the only invoices she had written for were for the White District, and those weren't to be shipped until the next half revolution of the planet.
Aquamarine looked back at Pearl, almost in demanding manner. If this was another repair request, she was going to bite someone's head off, particularly whoever was inconsiderate enough to write this. This was her time to herself, something she rarely got. Whoever wrote this could wait. She just needed to know who it was first, and she didn't dare read a word of the note until she knew who it was. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████▐ █ ███████ ██████ █████
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 12:46 am
• 𝐏 𝐄 𝐀 𝐑 𝐋 •
ʟᴏᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ: ʙʟᴜᴇ ᴅɪᴀᴍᴏɴᴅ's ᴛᴇᴍᴘʟᴇ ᴄᴏᴜʀᴛ || ᴍᴏᴏᴅ: ᴅɪsᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇᴅ
Pearl straightened herself as instructed, but fell back into a bow at the mentioning of her mistress. In the same practiced tone, she said, "My mistress is Lady Azurite of the aristocratic echelons. Grand acquaintance to our great matriarch, Blue Diamond."
Such grandiose statements always made Pearl internally retch. Yet, if she didn't Azurite would have her head if she didn't inflate her ego even without her presence. Continuing, she added:
"I was requested by my lady Azurite to deliver these personal messages from her hand to yours as she saw you befit of such news. If you wish, you may give your regards to be to return to her upon reading the message, or if not, you may decline and message and I will kindly relay your choice to her. However,"—Pearl's eyes opened here again—"such rudeness may not be taken lightly by my mistress."
It was the same song and dance Pearl gave whenever she delivered a message from Azurite; should another gem refuse to give in to her mistress's ploys, they would just be roped along into whatever gossip the gem wanted to spread. It sickened Pearl to know ruination could only be a deny away, but at the same time, she'd seen enough reputations falter from her mistress's hand that it seemed commonplace.
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 1:09 am
xxคquαɱαгเɳεxx▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████ ▐ █ ███████ ██████ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx❝It's all or nothing.❞╔══════════════╗
♢Location: The Temple
♢Mood: Nervous
╚══════════════╝ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Aquamarine swallowed, a cold sweat starting to peak at her forehead. Her eyes darted to the note in her hands, then unfolded it once more, her hands nearly shaking. Lady Azurite? Never had she ever been spoken to by someone of that class. Although only a couple ranks down, it seemed like a million as her light colored pupils skittered over the neatly printed text she held in her hands.
"L-Lady Azurite?" She managed to get the next sentence out with more precision, if one could even describe it as that. "...I don't understand why she would write this...much less about me..." Aqua swallowed hard and folded the paper again, handing it back to the bowed Pearl with a jerk of her wrist.
"You must have made a mistake, I would never say this about Blue Diamond. I'm a loyal technician in her court. In fact, I just finished a project that will prove to be most beneficial to the development of our district." Aqua shut her mouth before she said anything that would embarrass herself further. She seemed to be a bit more jittery than allowed after being indirectly spoken to by an aristocrat of Blue Diamond's acquaintance. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████▐ █ ███████ ██████ █████
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 1:27 am
• 𝐏 𝐄 𝐀 𝐑 𝐋 •
ʟᴏᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ: ʙʟᴜᴇ ᴅɪᴀᴍᴏɴᴅ's ᴛᴇᴍᴘʟᴇ ᴄᴏᴜʀᴛ || ᴍᴏᴏᴅ: ᴄᴏɴᴠᴇʀsᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ
Such a response—a cold sweat, the jitters—was such a commonality to see, Pearl could only stand motionless like a statue. She'd seen it a thousand times moreover from all gems of all different courts; Azurite's words had such power. Her sympathies went out to all of them, and when this was evident, she broke from her role at the risk of a shattering by her mistress's hand.
"May I be frank?" Pearl said, her tone now conversational, not formal and stiff. She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and continued. "Azurite is callous. She revels in this discomfort she spreads. You and so many other gems get swept along by her whims and status." Pearl sighed, taking the message from Aquamarine. "I apologize on her behalf."
Suddenly, as blasphemous as it was, Pearl ripped the sliver of paper into pieces, and dropped the flakes at her feet. "You seem like a respectable gem. To have your reputation tarnished would be... unbecoming. Might you tell me about this finished project of yours? I tire of making other gems feel nervous..."
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 1:57 am
xxคquαɱαгเɳεxx▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████▐ █ ███████ ██████ ██████████ ▐ █ ███████ ██████ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx❝It's all or nothing.❞╔══════════════╗
♢Location: The Temple
♢Mood: Shocked
╚══════════════╝ -------------------------------------------------------------------- The sudden change of tone definitely scared Aquamarine more than anything else, though not as badly as the thought of Azurite ruining her ranking over misspoken words and careless actions that were thought to be private.
But what really made Aquamarine's jaw drop was Pearl's tearing of the message.
"You...I mean...I just..." It was understatement to say that Aquamarine was stunned. She had never seen with her own two eyes a gem that defied their superiors. Much less, a pearl. A spark of respect flickered for the gem standing before her.
It took a second to recompose herself, but even still, Aquamarine she held her alignment and stayed at a standstill. She fixed her eyes onto an object in the distance, not daring to look Pearl in the eyes. From a distance, it looked like a normal encounter between a pearl and her superior, filled with what appeared to be disrespect from the higher ranked to the lower. Aqua spoke softly, but sharply.
"As much as I would love to engage in a conversational topic such as my past project, I'm afraid that it's unsafe to speak here so casually, especially with so many elites like myself around. There's a high chance you will be shattered. Stay in line. If you would really like to talk, you may follow me at a distance. Look as if you're on business." And with that, Aqua turned on her heel sharply, raising a hand to wipe the sweat off her forehead as she walked in the direction of the Hub.
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 2:21 am
• 𝐏 𝐄 𝐀 𝐑 𝐋 •
ʟᴏᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ: ʙʟᴜᴇ ᴅɪᴀᴍᴏɴᴅ's ᴛᴇᴍᴘʟᴇ ᴄᴏᴜʀᴛ || ᴍᴏᴏᴅ: ᴀᴍᴜsᴇᴅ
As if complying to an admonishment, Pearl bowed her head come the sharp face-heel turn of Aquamarine, but the barest curve of a smile could be seen upon her face. There was something relishing defying her mistress as such, even with the danger of a shattering hung over her like a veil. She bobbed her head at Aquamarine's words, giving a quick look over her shoulder at the gems that outranked her.
In return, she replied in a sing-song tone, "A simple manner to feign. The Hub, was it? I will make haste to see you there soon."
She silently bid her fellow gem goodbye with another bow, turning away to look beyond the court and to the spot where, under normal circumstances, her mistress would be seated. As of then and there, her absence felt like a blessing.
When the time and distance between her separation from Aquamarine seemed lengthy enough, she followed in the gem's footsteps, carelessly kicking up the flakes of paper as she walked.
(Exit -> The Hub)
jwilson0341 i'm getting kind of sleepy, so i am heading to bed soon~ feel free to post/quote me in the hub thread if you make a post!
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