[Blue is a diamond, she is innately superior to every single thing she encounters, but she does try after her own fashion to at least be a little compassionate if she can. And if Steven was innocent, what harm was there in Lapis keeping her peculiar little friend?

Besides which, keeping tabs on him if he were innocent may prove important.

The squeak of surprise draws an arch of black eyebrows and a look of thinly veiled ... what? Annoyance? Amusement? Even to empathic sense it's impossible to really pick out anything distinct.]

The Ringmaster explained that she would not resurrect the dead. But a shattered gem is not dead she is merely ... suffering unbearably and beyond our ability to ever help. Broken should be gone forever..

[Unreadable emotions surge back towards misery like a sudden tidal wave, and while Blue's smile is bitter, anger can't work its way up. There's that burning ember of hope again, as excruciatingly painful as it is wonderful.]

But now it isn't, and what is a year of being some strange being's pearl in return for that?

[It takes her a moment to wrap her calm around herself like a shroud again, and blink away the suspicious beginnings of tears, then turn to Lapis instead.]

It is outside your usual purview but resources are likely to be slim here, and I have no agate to assign the task instead. This .. friend of yours.. must survive at the very least until Pink Diamond's return, I wish for you to see to it that he does. Yellow will be displeased but I will explain matters to her.

[YELLOW'S HERE TOO?? Well Lapis knows that at least.]