A slow progression of understanding played across Peridot's face. She became uncomfortably aware of an absence in her head that she had been too busy with other thoughts to notice.

"Then...then even if I had taken out Rose Quartz...she never would have stayed down. There was no way I could have won..."

Rage twisted her face into a scowl and she snapped the branch in half with an effort too monumental for a Gem to ever need.

"They lied...They lied! The shadows- They never told me! YOU-" She looked up, as if she was trying to look into her own head.

"Hmph...They're gone."