#lackflaw

How peculiar, this fluttering inside her gem. With every second that passed it grew stronger, driving Blue to check, then double check, their preparations. She simply couldn’t sit still, knowing the eldest Diamond drew ever nearer, racing across space faster than the light of any star.

In the end there was little more to do than wait, her and her courtiers arranged on the largest landing pad this colony had to offer. Agates, Jades, Sapphires, Quartzes ------- the most ideal of each cut standing tall, wrists bent in perfect display of the Diamond salute. Anxieties soothed ( or perhaps, merely pushed aside ) Blue stood unflinching when the soft, lavender horizon was at once bleached of all color.

Larger than their two ships combined, White’s entrance into the atmosphere buffeted those around her with a sudden gust of wind. Clouds swirled, and like water, rippled outward in every direction only to surge back in waves. She had cleared this bay of every remaining craft and still this ship dominated all available space, though her gems knew better than to move an inch when that silver bubble began to descend. In unison they bowed, and Blue stepped forward, her own head dipped in reverence.

“White!” Glancing upwards into the radiance that was her creator’s gaze, an answering warmth colored her voice, touched her smile.