It had been a few weeks after my mission to Earth, I was still a bit shaken from it, luckily I was assigned to take some kind of class on the history of homeworld with other new gems that were made. Sighing as I walked into facet 16 a group of pearls being led by a honeycomb agate walked by me, I could hear some of what the agate was saying "...now when your owner wants you to sing for her what do you say?..." I smiled a bit as they got out of earshot, soon finding the building I needed to be at. "Hmmmmm facet 16 station 8-556-V, yup this is the place" I entered the building and looked around at the large assembly hall full of other gems and seats, taking a seat near the front I looked around and counted the gems I see "nine-hundred ninety-eight… nine-hundred ninety-nin- eep!" I was shocked when another eriduim popped up right in front of my face, her gem was on the right side of her head "hey how's it going?, I'm Eriduim 10x15 what's your cut number Eri-pal?" "Eri-pal? Ummmm I'm Eriduim cut 9x8" "nice to meet you 9x8, so when did you come out of your hole? I came out three weeks ago" "really three weeks ag-" a slight screeching sound caught everyone's attention and we all turned to face the main stage, I gasped a bit when I saw that odd purple amazonite standing there tapping the mic with a finger "testing, testing 1..2..3.., ah hello there today and welcome, many of you may be wondering who I am, I'm Purple Amazonite cut 66xA, I've been serving homeworld since era one, you may all refer to me as instructor Purple,... or Arby if you are feeling friendly, now, I can see some of you have your hands raised, no doubt you want to know what era one is.. Well era one was when the diamond authority was at the height of its power, back when there were not three diamonds, but four diamonds." I took a few notes as Purple Amazonite talked about era one, something I took notice of was Purple's uniform, a dark purple and black trench coat, large boots, and bright purple gloves, a blue diamond symbol on her chest "...now era one ended,... when my old diamond...Pink Diamond was shattered by a rebellious rose quartz…., after that and the loss of Earth, homeworld lost many resources it needed and so many gems were made weaker and sometimes smaller to cut back on the drain of resources that a normal gem needed to be made, however, many of you don't belong to era two, many of you are what researcher gems, like myself, are calling era three" I felt a little proud hearing that part for some reason "..however we'll get to era three when we see more of what's in store for our kind, right now era two, although it brought many problems with it, era two brought many good things aswell, such as limb enhancers and gem destabilizers, new types of ships and robonoids, all these new things allow our kind to thrive now…" a good seven hours went by as Purple Amazonite talked about era two and many other things, such was the origins of the gem race as a whole. "...and some believe that pearls were made by White Diamond herself to aid her in running homeworld effectively before she made Yellow and Blue Diamond…" a loud ringing soon filled the hall shocking a few gems who had fallen asleep "well then… looks like our time is up for today, please wait to be assigned a temporary dorm code and dorm-mate...let's see… Peridot 8x65 you and Ruby 77x77 will share dorm A-0896… Biggs Jasper 6x1 you and Bismuth 89x100 will share dorm B-9998…" I watched as gems were paired together and left for their dorms "pppsssttt 9x8 do you think we will be paired together?" "I don't know maybe" I tried to ignore her and listen to Purple Amazonite read the list "... Frost Agate 66x6 you and Bloodstone 77x6 will share dorm Z-0082…" "I hope so, I really like you 9x8" "sssshhhh!" "Eriduim 10x15 you and Cats Eye 99x5 will share dorm D-9999" I felt a bit sad when I saw the other eriduim frown a bit "awwww man…" she got up and went to find her new dorm-mate "Eriduim 9x8 you and Eriduim 9x7 will share dorm V-4868" I tilted my head a bit as I got up, soon seeing another eriduim with her gem on her mid-section walk up to me. "Ummmmmm h-hi 9x8, I-i-i'm E-e-e-e-e-e-eriduim 9x7" she seemed to be rather shy and scared "um nice to meet you.." we both started walking towards the dorm "sooo you were made in the same kindergarden as me huh? So I guess that makes you my little sister huh?" "well I guess, I mean we are the same height so I'm not really little…." I felt a soft blush appeared on my face as a soft chuckle escape my lips. "Hehe~, so when did you come out of your hole 9x7?" she seemed to stop for a moment and look around for a bit till she answered "ummmm well I think I came out 3 days ago….." I was slightly shocked when I heard that, she really was like a little sister "hehe, so what job do you do?" she looked around a bit again before speaking "I d-d-do l-limb e-enhancer repair…. W-what do you do?... if you don't m-mind me asking…" "oh, I'm in delivery services, hey you knows, I may need to deliver some extra tools to you" I smile and chuckle a bit, as she blushes a deep pinkish purple. A few moments passed as we found dorm V-4868, inside the dorm was pretty spacious, two cubby holes in the wall for us to rest in, two desks for working or studying, and a holo screen for announcements and the news "oh wow, i-it's so, big ummmm why are these holes in the wall?" she rubbed a hand on the side of the cubby closet to her, "oh those are cubbies, we go in their when we don't have anything to do, but they are a bit small for us…" as if to prove my point I walked into the cubby a bit wincing as my head banged against the top of it. "Ow, yea, they are a tiny bit small…" we had to slouch a bit just to fit in them comfortable, a few long hours passed and we just talked about things, turns out 9x7 and I were in the same court. "Man, it's nice to just talk to someone else who gets me you know?" "yea, it's really nic-EEP!" we were both shocked to hear a loud bell ring and the computery voice of Purple Amazonite "attention all gems in class 9089 report to building 8-556-V" getting out of our temporary cubbies we made our way back building 8-556-V.