Droxy: So who's introduced in this chapter?

Emerald: Maw-

Hope: GRANNY!

A tall, stout, busty woman with dark sunglasses and a kitchen knife studded with green gems came out, looking ready to fight any trespassers. She looked at Steven curiously, her mouth agape. "Aren't you the son of Rose?" She asked.

"Wait, you knew my mom?" Steven asked. He thought that the only Gems that knew his mom and were still "living" were Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet.

"Knew her? I knew her when she got fat!" The woman said and gestured them in.

"When she got fat?" Steven and Connie asked simultaneously as they walked in.

"Yeah, with you boy." She pointed to Steven and laughed a bit. The woman began to stir into a pot. She poured a bit of the thing she was stirring into a bowl and gave it to Steven. "This was her favorite thing to eat when she was having you."

"Wait. How would you know that, uh, um."

"Maw-sit-sit. Rose visited me occasionally whenever the others went out on a mission and wouldn't let her come along."

"Why wouldn't they let my mom on missions?" Steven asked.

"I thought Rose Quartz was their leader." Connie spoke Steven's other thoughts trying to figure this out.

"Didn't want the precious bundle getting hurt." Maw-sit-sit explained as she poked Steven's chest. "She'd come around whenever she was craving it, even if Gems don't need to eat, she loved it."

Steven looked at it before he began to slurp it down. "So, what's your, uh, relationship with the Crystal Gems?" Connie asked.

"Used to be a part of. Split off a while back, along with some others who either ended up in a sleep as a Gem artifact, or just wanted to do things their own way. Me, I split off with a youth like Gem who fell in love with a human. Rose tried to forbid it and that caused her to run off."

"Who was it?"

"Oh you probably wouldn't know her. She was way before her times. She described her apparel as 'punk rock.' Anywho I refused to be a part of it when she insisted to either split away or join her. Whilst I did want to protect her, if I were to have gone I'd be trapped for a long time. Maybe never released."

"Released from what?" Steven inquired.

"Never mind. I suppose there's a reason you came here. Did Pearl or Ruby talk about me?"

"N-no, we heard you from an urban legend." Steven explained. Maw-sit-sit tensed up.

"Don't tell me," she groaned nervously. "The others are relocating here?"

"Uh, no. We-we ran away from them." Steven explained. While Connie did want some advice for that's why they'd come there along to explore, she was hoping that this -er -person (because the Gem was covered.) wouldn't "rat them out."

"Huh, well alrighty then. What do you need from me?"

"We were wondering if you had any ideas to help hide from the Gems."

"Well, that depends, if they're lookin for ya, they'll try to find ya by any means necessary. But, they won't find ya for a while if ya go to the country's capital."

"Really? Washington D.C.?" Connie asked.

"Yeah. We Gems don't like politics." Maw-sit-sit lied.

"Makes sense." Steven commented. "The only person who the Gems have met that deals with politics is,"

"Mayor Dewey?" Maw-sit-sit finished. "His family's been a line of mayors ever since the American Revolution."

"Wow, that really is a long time." Connie thought aloud.

"Well, if ya are runnin from the Crystals, I suggest ya get on the road. They might be here in a day or two."

"How do you know?" Steven asked.

"Let's just say that I got a few ideas that were good in the war before the whole breaking away tangent." She explained as Steven and Connie nodded and began to say goodbye.

Droxy: Why does this feel so…forced?

Hope: I don't know. Poor Granny.