video;

[peridiot]

[Peridot looks...concerned.]

Has anyone seen Shay? The Morrigan isn't docked...maybe he went for a sail.

[She's already lost Tektite without warning, and while the other Gem had been the last connection she'd had to home, she hadn't really cared for her much. But if Shay's gone, really gone...she has nobody. Shay's her only friend.]

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[peridiot]

No, some kind of...thing he was wearing. I couldn't see him very well, he was far away, and then I was in the middle of it. But I saw some other police officers wearing things to protect themselves.

[looksfine]

[She thought for a moment of her experience with the law enforcement individuals.]

Ah, you are referring to the protective synthetic fibers designed at absorbing the impact of several high-projectile weaponry that could be used against them?