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[the feed is set to video, but Lapis seems only nominally interested in achieving a steady recording of her face. she's turned it on for another purpose, and the quality of everything else up until that point is really unimportant to her. at least gems don't have naturally shaky hands, even if the camera keeps trailing off into nothing now and then before she rights it, almost absent-mindedly.]

How long are you supposed to wait to be sure that someone's been ported out? I've seen people say stuff like 'a while', but humans and gems don't really seem to have the same idea of what a long time actually is.

I haven't seem someone who lives in this house with me for - [shit, fuck. Lapis' expression stutters into hesitance as she realizes that she has no idea how long she's been not seeing him, nor does she remember any useful earth calendar terms beyond month and year.] - I haven't really seen him lately. But he's kind of stupid and scared of me, so I don't know if that's on purpose or not.

[she gives a lopsided shrug, as if to say 'what can you do?' humans were a crazy weird little species, and she's given up trying to fix their misconceptions on a lot of things. if Hyunsoo wanted to think she was out to kill him, let him. he was the one looking dumb, not her.]

...I've got something else to ask, too.

[this is the reason that she'd switched the video on. Lapis' nose scrunches in a cross between disgust and bafflement before she swings the camera around to zero in on - the fridge?

without further ado, a little blue hand sneaks back into frame to swing the refrigerator door open. have you ever seen food left to its own devices for a little over a month, imPorts? if not, here's your prime chance to some front row seats because that is exactly what this fridge is full of.

clearly it's been a while since Hyunsoo was last here.]

Is food supposed to look like that?

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Probably.
He may have friends or family who want his things, though.

I don't think he was smart enough for that, honestly.

That's really not

That doesn't actually matter when it comes to whether people cared about him.

He couldn't understand anything I ever said to him. I don't think you can really care about someone when they won't listen to you.

That's still not true.

You mean didn't mean speak English?

No, the translator worked fine. He just decided what he wanted my words to mean, whether that's what I was saying or not.

That's...certainly weird.
I almost want to ask for an example.

But honestly, just because the two of you didn't get on doesn't mean other people didn't get along with him.

They must not have liked him all that much if they haven't come to check on him before now.

I suppose that's true.
If a bit sad.
Who was it, anyway?

H...something.

[Lapis, shining example of social bonds. she's lucky she even remembers what Hyunsoo looks like.]

I can go look at his stuff if you really want to know.

You lived with him, but you don't know his name.

Why should I? Just because you see someone often doesn't mean that you have to know anything about them.

It's a bit strange to not want to get to know the people you live with.

I never asked to be here. I go back to that house because that's where they put me, not because I care about the other people there.

None of us asked to be here.

But that hardly means we have to be here alone.

You can't be alone on a planet with this many people.

[too many people. way too many people.]

Clearly you can.

[Red might be reading a little into this but she'd bet money she wasn't wrong.]

This world is nothing like isolation.

[for someone so clearly ignorant to assert otherwise was borderline offensive - but it was probably just a human, so she managed to rein herself in. they'd never understand.]

It can be.
There are many different kinds of isolation.

Maybe for humans.

And what would you be, then?

I'm a gem.

[obviously.]

I'm afraid you'll have to explain that.
I'm picturing talking jewelry and that seems unlikely.

[instead she simply sends a picture of what is clearly Lapis' back and the teardrop-shaped gemstone embedded seamlessly between her shoulders.]

I'm not from earth, so we work a little different than your minerals.

[There's a delay, because you're her first alien, Lapis. That she knows about anyway.]

I see.
And they don't get lonely wherever you're from?

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