An: FEAST... or... FAMINE. (I'm totally joking, but that's how it feels. XD)

Amethyst glowered at the blue Gem, Sapphire. She was done having her around. It was nearly mid-day by now, and all she had done was freeze up the place. Then Ruby was there to melt it all. What resulted was dry air and water flowing down the kindergarten like a river.

She watched as Ruby, who'd generally been as distant as Amethyst was, stepped closer to her. She sat down, and Amethyst noticed the uncomfortable expression on her face as she melted the ice beneath her. "So," she began, glancing behind her.

"What do you want?" Sapphire asked.

"I just want to show you something—"

"Like how much things you've stolen from innocent Gems?" Ice spiked up around Ruby and Amethyst reached for the gem on her chest.

"No, no, no, it's nothing like that." She reached behind her and pulled out a handful of seashells. "It's a game."

Amethyst's shoulders heaved. Of course. Amethyst usually wouldn't have cared if Ruby was using Amethyst's stuff, but when the only thing that Ruby contributed to their home was an annoying, snooty Gem that made even breathing uncomfortable, she got a little peeved. The best thing Ruby could do at the time would be to put her back where she belonged.

Still, she watched as Ruby put the shells down in a line. She scraped the dirt below her and pulled up a rock. She put it under the centre shell and then looked up at Sapphire. "Do you know which one the rock's under?"

Without a beat, she responded, "The middle one."

"Alright. Watch it. I'll be shuffling them around." Ruby did, and for a few minutes Amethyst watched the shells. Ruby must've been playing easy, because she didn't move the pebble into a different shell.

Ruby ended the shuffling and then lifted her hands. She might've took it into her hand at the last second. "Where is it now?"

"The one to the right."

Amethyst laughed to herself. Ruby never even had the pebble there in the end. And if it was, she bet it was still in the middle.

"Alright then," Ruby said, then opened the shell. In fact, the pebble was sitting right there. Amethyst gaped, and glanced at Ruby to meet her gaze.

"What? You've got to be playing easy," she said, walking closer into the hole.

"No!" She raised her hands in the direction of Sapphire. "I swear by the stars, I'm not." Ruby looked at Sapphire. "Well, you've won. Want to try again?"

She shrugged. "Nothing says I shouldn't." Amethyst blinked at the odd statement, but waited for Ruby to do her thing.

She shuffled quicker this time, and Amethyst caught the glint of the pebble falling to the ground.

Ruby stopped a few shuffles later.

The ice around Sapphire fell away as she answered quickly. "You threw it on the floor to fool me."

Ruby hesitated, then blushed a fiery red. She lifted up all three shells. "Yeah, you've got it."

Amethyst saw the corners of Sapphire's mouth twitch, and she turned her head up. "Another round?" The ice melted away and pooled at the centre of the hole.

"Sure," Ruby said, turning around. She heard the scoop of dirt and then it falling to the ground. So she was using three pebbles now, just to mess with her. "So you really get a kick out of this game…"

There was silence as she nodded. "It takes my mind off things."

"Alright then." Ruby placed the pebbles in the shells before turning back. "Now, let's go."

She shuffled fast enough that Amethyst could barely see her hands going. She went for a full minute, and Amethyst noticed the water falling away from the de-iced dirt walls. She chuckled to herself, and saw Ruby had stopped.

If there weren't all three pebbles in there, Amethyst wouldn't have given up. "Guess which one now," Ruby said smugly.

"All of them." Nearly all the ice fell away as Ruby flared up.

"What?" she asked. Amethyst stole a glance behind her to the kindergarten. That was louder than she'd have liked. "How do you know?"

Ruby turned to Amethyst, who shrugged. How was she supposed to know?

Recognition dawned on Ruby's face. "You know, back before we were retired from the service, the other Rubies talked about Gems that could see the future." She chuckled loudly. "Oh man, the jokes I've heard about those Gems." She quieted down at an angry glare from Amethyst. "Well, either way. Are you one of them?"

Ice crept up around Sapphire, freezing the stream. "I don't want to say."

So she was. Wonderful. Amethyst's hair started to raise on end. "Well, are you important?"

"I don't want to say." Ice spiked up from the patches around her in sharp spikes, and Ruby hopped out of the way.

She put her hand on the spikes, smoothing them down. "It's alright." She turned to Amethyst and then back to Sapphire. "Should we leave?"

There was no sound as frost crept into her lighter blue hair. Ruby put a hand, melting some of the frost, and walked to Amethyst. "We should go."

Amethyst nodded. About time. Just as she turned, she was stopped by Sapphire's voice. "I actually have something to tell you."

Amethyst sighed. "What?" she hissed, but stopped herself as Ruby threw a not-so-subtle growl at her.

"Well, I am one of those gems. The psychic ones." She turned away.

Like we didn't know. She stepped closer. "That's it? You're psychic, so what?"

Ruby turned back to Amethyst and narrowed her eyes. She sat down on the ice and turned to Sapphire. "We aren't bugged by cheating at the shell game."

Ice spiked up. "You think I care about the shell game?" she wailed. "They're looking for us right now, and when they find us, it isn't going to be pretty."

Amethyst watched as the centre of her face wettened, then dried. What in the…?

"For you or us?" Amethyst asked, leaning against the wall.

What she didn't expect was Sapphire looking up and pulling her bangs out of her face. One eye stared up at her. "Both."

Amethyst leaned into Ruby, thinking of the doom the other Gems might as well have been. Oh, this was all their faults. Her shoulders tensed. Ruby should have poofed Sapphire and been done with it. But no.

She got off of Ruby's shoulder and sat up tall. "So we should hide."

Sapphire nodded. "That way, there's a chance they won't find us."

Amethyst nodded, clawing scratches into the dirt. "Can't you tell us any more than that?"

"The future's a shaky thing. And around you," she sighed. "It just blurs even more." She put her gloved hand down, and Ruby took it.

"You did the best you can. When do they come?"

Sapphire smiled, ice falling away from her. Amethyst saw flames crackling at Ruby's feet and she growled internally.

"They come tonight."

Amethyst scratched her hair. "You think that we'd survive anyways?"

Ruby glanced at Sapphire before Amethyst. "Of course we would."