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“I believe,” huffed the Agate, “that the traitor has to be a Peridot.”

Connie sighed, blowing one of her many, many hairs out of her face. This Agate, tall and dark blue and commanding a small detachment of Amethysts, certainly liked the sound of her own voice. She had been speaking incessantly for hours, shouting orders and insults to the guards outside Blue Diamond’s personal chamber; it was really getting on her nerves, and she had no patience for whatever gossip she was getting into now.

“I think it might be a-” an Amethyst began.

“Silence! I believe this traitor has to be a Peridot,” sniffed the Agate. “You simply can’t trust a Peridot. Rotten little things, the lot of them; they should have been discontinued cycles ago.”

Connie smirked mentally.

“Are you saying my Diamond has made a mistake?” she asked innocently.

The Agate turned.

“What?” she spat.

“If the Diamonds believed peridots were defective, they would have discontinued them,” she said, smiling faintly. “Are you saying they made a mistake?”

The Agate turned decidedly purple.

“I… I… no, I… I, um…”

She regained her posture.

“Shut up, you pathetic little pearl, no one asked you!”

Connie smiled with fake sweetness as she went back to standing still outside the door. For what it was worth, the Agate shut up, concerning herself with inspecting the posture of the Amethyst guards.