That's true... There's no way to know whether it would be successful or not, either. If we're compatible, so to speak.

[everyone is, after all, from different worlds and places.

she doesn't know the origin of the gems that make up pearl and her people.

slipping further into the water and propping her arms behind her back, rin stares off at the moon. she could ask about it.]

Maybe there are other ways we can support each other...

Say, Pearl, where do Gems like you come from?

[she's heard bits and pieces before, from pearl herself and also steven, but never the full story.]