She'll try to remember to explain the mirror thing later. Hopefully Lapis will forgive her a little white lie once she understands that no gems were actually trapped in there.

"Nah 'Laz, we cool!" says Peridot brightly, which... Somehow she still manages to sound like an out-of-touch geezer when she says that, but hey, she's trying to be reassuring. Resorting to "cool" and casual speech patterns seems like the right thing to do here. "I guess you could kind of say it has something to do with my form change..."

She sits back and draws her knees up, sweeping her tail around front to rest over he clawed feet. "I can try and explain everything. Ssssome of it is going to sound... really weird, but just trust me, okay?"