Notes.
I guess I will be introducing and/or reintroducing characters, which hadn't really have much focus, like Delta, Alpha, maybe Beta. I am going to introduce a Lapis Lazuli (Nicknames accepted and appreciated) and possibly a quartz (Possible types and nicknames also accepted). I am doing this because I want to concentrate on characters other than Omega and Star, who I like, but they won't carry this entire story by themselves, will they? Also, this time I will actually give time for people to respond as last time only my right hand Missigno50 was able to react in time. So you have around half a month after this goes out.
I won't upload anything next week, and possibly a week after that.
Now moving to the story.
Morganite opened the file on Delta, who was the next one on the appointment list this cycle. At least this client's problem was not as complex as Omegas and Stars.
Delta was one of her first clients. She came for her first consultation just several cycles after Omega and Star first showed up.
Even at first sight Morganite knew there was something wrong with the Prime Obsidian, as her form was far smaller than the monstrosity that was Omega. Her form was barely taller than Morganites, who was around height of a pearl. But she was not only quite short for her type; she had also taken a petite form, more suitable for a nephrite, lapis lazuli or even a morganite than a soldier gem. Her form must have looked tiny compared to her soldiers. This size was quite strange, especially considering that her black gem was so massive that it covered most of her shoulder. She wore a grey uniform, same shade as her hair, which were several shades lighter than her dark grey form.
"Sit down." The gem scientist gestured at one of the chairs,
The obsidian did so.
"So… Could you describe what makes you fell… Uncomfortable?" Morganite asked.
"I…I feel weak…" Delta forced out.
"What do you mean? You are a prime obsidian, a perfect general and a perfect soldier." Or at least that was who you were supposed to be.
"I… I know that, but… But I have noticed something."
"And what would be that?"
"That I am not even close to others… I mean I lost in a duel with the defect! What prime obsidian am I after that?"
Morganite had heard about the encounter Delta was speaking of. She was even able to get Alpha to show her a recording and explain the context in which the battle happened. It was not the prettiest of sights seeing proudly marching obsidians mowed down by an ambush by the proto Sharded, while the defect basically annihilated the prime obsidian. The blow to Deltas self-worth was clearly massive. But Morganite had an idea.
"How much do you know about Omega?"
"Almost nothing…"The gem answered, clearly confused by the question." After our duel I only met it during council meetings."
Morganite thought, back then, that she could easily solve this.
"So you don't know?"
"What should I know?" Delta asked, clearly without any interest.
"That you were one of few things that was able to stand up to Omega, even if for a short time." Morganite exclaimed with a smile on her face.
Of course this was not true; the defect was powerful, somehow even more than the Prime obsidians, but it was not even close to what the propaganda machine run by countless gems of different types made it look like. But if Delta didn't know this, it could be used to help with her complex.
"What do you mean?" The obsidian asked, clearly not believing what she was hearing.
"I presume you were part of The Purge we were ordered to commit upon the forces of the traitorous Epsilon." After the gem in front of her nodded, Morganite continued." Then you know that the traitors tried to use fusion to overwhelm our forces."
"What are trying to tell me?"
"Omega was able to defeat fusions consisting of three gems, while being alone."
Delta looked up, for the first time in the whole conversation.
"Even if the defect is so powerful, this doesn't explain one thing."
"And that would be?"
"Why am I weaker than Alpha…"
What Morganite thought would only be one conversation turned into session after session every few cycles.
It turned out that Delta was true; she was weaker than other Prime obsidians. For some reason the gem scientist couldn't find her gem emitted less energy than was norm for her type. Morganite couldn't fix this; there was simply no way to do so. So she helped the only way she could, by talking to her. And while it did help stopping the obsidians inferiority complex from progressing, it didn't really remove it as every day the dark grey gem was surrounded by images of what she was supposed to be…
Morganite shook her head; it seemed that this cycle she won't be able to concentrate properly. She closed the file and put it next to the one about the leader of the terraforming corps. She looked at all three files arranged on her table. For some reason she had forgotten to put one on Omega and Star away. She looked at the folders, focused on them for no reason. Then she had an idea.
She quickly opened all three files, then turned on her console and started typing; only breaking away from the screen to flip a page in one of the files.
"Why is a Lapis Lazuli present during our session?" Delta asked, clearly annoyed by the presence of the blue gem, who herself looked similarly surprised at the events that had transpired.
"I could ask you the same thing." Muttered out the terraformer.
Morganite started questioning her decisions, but her façade stayed calm.
"This cycle you will not be discussing your problems with me." She proclaimed her voice and face emotionless.
"I have deduced, using information I currently have, that I am not quite in position to help with your current complexes as I am not experiencing them myself. And my analysis of my other clients dictates that it is easier to keep in check or remove psychological problems when the gem experiencing them has a possibility to express what they are feeling to another gem with similar complexes."
"Wait, you don't mean…" Delta started to say, but was quickly cut off.
"You both feel inferior, yes."
"But what makes you think that we will want to talk?"
Morganite stood up, walked to her worktable, pressed one button on her console, took something from her table, and then simply walked out of the cabinet and before either of her clients were able to react locked the door.
"Now you will have to talk, if you want to leave that is."
And then she simply walked away, ignoring the threats screamed at her by the Prime obsidian and lapis lazuli locked in the room. She took out the communications device which she had connected to her console so she could listen to the conversation.
After ten minutes the obsidian locked in with her stopped screaming and trying to break the door. The dark grey gem sat back down next to her with an expression of defeat on her face.
"So I guess we will have to talk?" Lapis asked unsurely.
The obsidian turned to her.
"I guess so…"
End notes.
Next chapter will be talking and talking and talking, so if you want to submit ideas what should Deltas and Lapis (Which clearly isn't our Lapis) characters be, then do it.
Have a nice day!