Reflections of the Past

He couldn’t walk much now, the metal that made up the bones in his legs twisted and brittle. No matter how much Imperial Jade nagged at him to fix them, he never got around to doing so. He never minded, it gave him a lot of time to think.

Time had worn heavily on him, but then it had done the same to Titanium. Her skin hadn’t been as tough as it was now when she was younger. Her eyes had both been brown, not mismatched. Her hair had always been long, he remembered it going past her shoulders, but it had never gone down to her waist.

She was still the same in terms of personality though, still straightforward with a hidden talent for manipulation, still confident, still caring.

He’d known her for years, back before he’d learned to change people’s bodies slowly into gemstones and metals, before she gained the scars, before she’d learned about her healing ability. Before a lot of things, he had known her.

People had always talked about them, about how it was clear he had a crush on her. He had never, she was his best friend. Besides, it had probably been the best secret they had ever kept that she had always been more interested in girls and even then, she’d never really cared.

He smiled at her, she rolled her eyes at him with a faint smile tugging at the corners of her lips.

And so they continued with life.


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Interrupted Naps and Snow

There was snow on the ground when she woke up. Well, she supposed she couldn’t really call it the ground, considering it was actually the roof. Regardless of whether or not she should call it the ground or the roof, she was awake when there was snow which usually only came down in winter when she was asleep.

As it was melting, she guessed that spring was on the horizon.

Stretching her arms above her head, she stood up and angled her telescope towards the actual ground. Through it, she could see Titanium clearing the front steps of the temple.

Astrophyllite whistled sharply to attract attention and, once the much more durable woman looked up, waved.

She smiled slightly when her greeting was returned and turned her telescope to face the sky once again.

The snowdrops she had seen on the ground told her that it would soon be time for the rest to wake up but until then, she would go back to napping.


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