Peridot looks mortified, eyes going as wide as saucers. When the Ringmaster says her name she jolts, fumbling her half-filled soda can in her claws and dropping it. It hits the forest floor and fizzes quietly as its contents spill out onto the ground. The contents of Peridot's mouth soon follow it there, when she opens up to blurt out a frenzied apology and winds up blurting out a bunch of sugar water instead.

"Forgive me Ringmaster, I thought you meant for us to wait!" Peridot splutters, reflexively throwing up the Diamond salute because. That's just what you do? When you're a lesser gem and you're getting chewed out by an all-powerful authority figure??

...The effort of her apology is kind of undercut by the amount of soda currently dribbling down her chin.