"Life is not limited by the expectations of human beings," Blue says gently, sounding amused. "Or by their experiences. The universe is vast, and full of wonders."

Most of which gems have long since unraveled, of course, but that didn't make those things any less wondrous. How terribly limiting it must be, to be meat and presume all things must exist as meat does. "Yes. It's one of the many traits of my kind. It must be a little strange to consider a gem to be as alive as any human, it took us a while to come to similar terms with organic life."