"A fraud," she starts incredulously, but when Peridot ploughs on what she says stops Jasper in her tracks. One of her hands starts to curl closed, reassuring herself with blunt clawless fingers brushing her palm -- but there's a reason that feeling is reassuring, and it's that what Peridot's saying is right. She did change. She doesn't like looking directly at the thought, but -- she changed, Earth changed her like it did those other gems, she was becoming a monster, a beast --

"That doesn't--" Her voice is rough and confrontational, but her expression is haunted. "It doesn't matter. I can dance if I want to."