The water rushed all around her as she sat atop one of the towers. In here, she could be alone with her thoughts. She was visibly exhausted and disheveled, as she had been mourning for the past few days. The other gems had tried to coax her out of her room, but she was having none of it. She just needed to be alone for a while.
Pearl's chest ached as she caressed the photograph with a long, slender hand. Her current emotional state couldn't have been any further from the mood of the image on the paper she held. The two of them had been so happy on the day it was taken.
"I-I'm sorry, Lapis. I couldn't keep my vow," she whispered, trembling. She still couldn't believe that she was really, truly gone.
"I promised to protect you. I promised you eternity, and I couldn't even give that to you."
Her mind wandered back to the day that the picture had been taken. It was the day Lapis had become her wife, and the most amazing day that Pearl had ever known.
She closed her eyes and laid down, clutching the paper to her chest as a million memories flooded her mind.
The day they started dating. Kissing all of her freckles. The first time they had fused. Stargazing on the beach. Going to Funland on a date. Waking up next to her. All of these were things she knew she would never get to do again, and the thought wore away at her.
She cringed as though she was about to start crying again, but she had no tears left. She only wanted one thing at this moment, and that was Lapis.
She tucked the photo away as her hand reached up to touch the ring on her necklace. As she did so, she couldn't help but remember putting the very same ring onto a familiar blue hand. She herself still wore the ring from their wedding day, as though to say that her heart still belonged to Lapis and always would.