Peridot reporting in. Day... Seventy two?
I've lost track. Been busy. Lot of work to do.
I no longer possess anything resembling a home. I tore down what was left, apparently.
I don't know what I was doing. The heat is getting to me.
Sometimes it feels like I blink and it's night, and I'm in a completely different spot. It's disconcerting, but I've dealt with worse.
I've chosen to only operate during the night. I don't know what I'm doing in the day, but I have to find some sort of shelter if I want to work in the day. As it stands right now, my processor is likely unable to deal with the higher temperatures thanks to the crash. If I had the proper tools to repair it, it would be no issue. However, particle build-up in my extenders has removed most of any non-combat ability I have.
We are not meant to survive, not like the carbon-life here. We either thrive or break down, no middle-ground.
It's... Strange, really. Living and being surrounded in an area that rejects you. Sometimes I see faces in the rocks, or breath in the grains of dirt and sand that blow through here. I'd imagine it'd be similar to humanity being approached by a less-primitive ancestor, and realizing that they are not evolved.
That's the thing about evolution, hmm? We don't become better through evolving. That's a hopelessly naive notion. Many gems hold this sort of idea that they are superior beings, superior creatures. The truth is, they are not superior. They are highly evolved.
They have found their niche, and adapted supremely well to it. We live in cool areas, and we know how to make areas cool. We have built ways to tame the environment and make it like our homeworld. We have not become less vulnerable to inhospitable climates. Rather, we have learned to change the inhospitable climates. Make them hospitable.
But, as I stand here, on a cliff face looking down at the stream beds in an attempt to determine which one would take me to the Crystal Gems dwelling, without any tools to navigate with, without any way to live comfortably, I know precisely how naive that idea is.
We are weak on our own. We have nothing but our minds. Our minds are our only advantage.
Well, let's see if it's a good advantage, hmm?
Peridot, reporting out.