Oh it's fine. I'm a little unfamiliar with modern human customs myself, so I won't take offence.
[Still, it's definitely interesting, and it makes him look at her gem in a new light, remembering his conversation with Garnet. Were they from the same Earth then? Ford ponders this as he takes in her words, rolling them around in his head. Familiar and unfamiliar at the same time, though for other reasons. What must it be like, to not be related to ones just like you. He used to wonder that most as a teenager.]
I did some geology in my years, mostly as a way of figuring out resources to power the portal. You'll have to forgive me if I'm a bit ignorant myself, but it sounds like how some gems are man made, though I don't think they're "injected" into the crust, per say.
[His lips quirk, before he taps his chin.]
At least you have that Steven boy you told me about. It would be a rather lonely world without company.
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[Still, it's definitely interesting, and it makes him look at her gem in a new light, remembering his conversation with Garnet. Were they from the same Earth then? Ford ponders this as he takes in her words, rolling them around in his head. Familiar and unfamiliar at the same time, though for other reasons. What must it be like, to not be related to ones just like you. He used to wonder that most as a teenager.]
I did some geology in my years, mostly as a way of figuring out resources to power the portal. You'll have to forgive me if I'm a bit ignorant myself, but it sounds like how some gems are man made, though I don't think they're "injected" into the crust, per say.
[His lips quirk, before he taps his chin.]
At least you have that Steven boy you told me about. It would be a rather lonely world without company.