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Agate knotted her fingers together and kept her gaze unfocused but ahead of her as she stood among the gems that were much higher rank than her and paid no attention to her. Usually her fingers would be knotted with someone else's or onto something attached to someone else but the white sapphire she had come with had shooed her away to wait while she did something that Agate did not need to be a part of and agate was not going to cling onto a complete stranger.
Her sapphire hadn’t returned when suddenly her surroundings were thrown into chaos. Agate heard some one say that that rebels were here but she couldn’t see them. Her height or lack of didn't help. She should wait for her sapphire. Her sapphire would be calm and know what to do, but a gem too close to her yelled and poofed and Agate fled away from it even if that abandoned her without anyone to lead her and away from other gems.
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Dumortierite was a quartz so she was supposed to be there to defend and her eyes followed a smaller blue gem that was fleeing. If it was a rebel, which wouldn't make sense because no other rebels were fleeing but regardless, she should be captured and if it wasn’t she needed to be brought back anyways. The little gem was fast and didn’t leave an obvious trail but once they were far enough from the loud chaos she was easy to hear. She still didn’t leave much of a trail. Dumortierite didn’t care whether she left one or not as she followed she assumed that the gem was too panicked to notice if anyone was following. Eventually she caught up, but that was mostly due to the fact that the other had tripped and had not been too quick getting up.
It was an agate, a blue one, not a blue lace, just blue. She had a white diamond on the chest of her light purple uniform and had a washed out appearance to her but that wasn't uncommon in those under white diamond's. Dumortierite vaguely remembered her being there with a white sapphire, but the agate obviously wasn't with the sapphire now. A sapphire would never have fled the way the agate had. Agates weren’t know for fleeing, that required fear and making a decision. This one was staring up at her and she said something to quietly and too fast for Dumortierite to catch and she responded, “Huh?”
The agate scooted a little further away and repeated more clearly, “I’m not going back.”
The agate seemed surprised that she had actually said that. Dumortierite was surprised that she had even thought of that. She didn't think agates cared enough to want anything. The agate now seemed to be waiting to see what Dumortierite would do. Dumortierite wasn't sure what she wanted to do. They could go back. It's not like the agate would be able to beat her in a fight, but the fact the agate wanted to get as far away from homeworld as possible made it hard for Dumortierite to want to force her to go back. They probably wouldn't get in trouble if they went back, but they also probably wouldn't get a chance to do this again. Dumortierite awkwardly offered her her hand, the agate was still sitting on the forest floor. She said, "Me neither." The agate stared at that for a few moments before grabbing onto it.