For a while everything was perfect. Pink would enjoy her imagined reports, ever so often asking about a detail that caught her attention. So Pearl made sure that each new time she included those details and added more of those in each new report.

Even so, there were limits she was bound to hit.

She was just a Pearl in the end.

A capable Pearl.

Still only a pearl.

"So she had to fight those ruby guards?" Pink diamond asked. Sitting on a big pillow, smiling wide at Pearl. Fingers drawing shapes, inspired by the report she was just told.

"A pearl was not built to fight, my diamond." she offered.

"But you said, she poofed the guards and escaped in a roaming eye." Her diamond responded having a delightful smile on her face. Finger stopping from drawing a roaming eye.

Pearl felt proud that she manages to capture her diamond attention so well that she would hang onto every word she said.

It absolutely terrified her that her diamond attention was so fully on her and every word she said.

She never saw a gem fight… at least none came to mind… in reports there were never detailed battles. They just said who won, who lost.

"I did say that, my diamond."

"So how would she have done it, without a fight?" Pink diamond swiped the drawing down making it vanish. Hand going to idly rest in her lap. Pearl had no clue. She had no clue with а fighting how it would be done, either.

"I never said she didn't fight, my diamond. Just that pearls were not built for it." she offered.

"I wonder how mysterious pearl fights, what weapon does a pearl use?" PInk diamond tilted her head eyes looking somewhere far away.

Pearl closed her eyes, she knew she had a few moments before her diamond would focus on her and ask her to answer the whys and whats and hows…Her diamonds favourite were whys, though.

The time available needed to be used efficiently. The mysterious pearl was having her body type, so if she assumes herself in her role… she could ...fight? Make a fight? Imagine a fight? How would she move when having a weapon?... Holding a weapon? Owning a weapon? Summoning a weapon?

What weapon?

She doesn't have a weapon…

So maybe she would have to obtain a weapon. What weapon would she obtain? She only ever saw Topaz with weapons… She couldn't phantom carrying such a weapon with herself… Something smaller perhaps… Lighter?

She knew swords existed… She could look some swords in the archive…

Or she could go to the guard's armoury.

That was absurd she should just look at some pictures of recorded weapons.

She knew Pink will at one point ask why did she pick that weapon.

She will just be truthful and say it was looking nice.

But wouldn't it be better if she could tell, she picked that weapon, because of how the weapons feel in her hand. How she liked the weapon of choice, because of how practical it was?

Absurd, what she like does not matter...for Pearl. It does matter for mysterious Pearl, though.

Pearl felt her fingers twitch as if the idea alone was making her… making her...giddly?

"Pearl."

Pearl gasped, Pink asked her a question and she missed it! Missed it because she was so caught up in ...in so inappropriate thinking! Pearls shouldn't haul around weapons! Why was that… so… but mysterious pearl would have needed a weapon to poof the guards.

"Forgive me, my-" Pearl bowed deeply about to receive any punishment her diamond saw befitting. Except the diamond chime saved her. Blue diamond chime.

Saved by the chime.

"Come in!" Pink diamond attention shifted as she jumped closer to the opening door. Leaving Pearl to slowly look up, her eyes catching onto the mirror. She could see herself all in black like a shadow, holding onto a topaz weapon. Heavy and too big. Her fingers curled around the no-existing handle. She blinked.

The image was gone.

Blue pearl spoke up softly like always.

A gem from the blue court has caused harm to a gem from the pink court. Pink huffed.

"I want them punished!"

Blue pearl made a deep bow. Pearl's eyes travelled to her own hand, how heavy would a weapon be? Would it hurt to move it around fast?

"My diamond is asking you, Pink Diamond, to attend the trial and be part of deciding the appropriate punishment, Pink Diamond."

Pearl slowly and deliberately blinked, forcing herself to not care. She will have to take notes on the trial. She couldn't be distracted by... imagined reports. Especially not weapons.