Pink Diamond paced around her room, arms folded and the large diamond in her forehead glowing a vibrant light pink. She was in thought. She was in panicked thought, at least, that's what her amethyst could guess.

This had been going on for hours, and showed no sign of ending. Pink Diamond's pearl was running a few errands for her diamond, leaving the amethyst to stand by the throne and watch.

"My Diamond?" The quartz finally said, his voice echoing through Pink Diamond's chamber, her footsteps almost drowning it out.

Pink Diamond stopped and looked at the amethyst. "Yes?"

"You have been pacing for hours. Would you mind sitting down.. if only for a minute?"

Pink Diamond stared at the quartz before sighing and sitting down on the large pink crystal throne.

"What is bothering you, My Diamond?" The amethyst asked. It wasn't uncommon for his Diamond to fall into a large mental fit over something. Nor was it uncommon for him to help bring her to her senses.

He would never tell anyone that, of course.

"I fear that Yellow Diamond is going too easy on the Earth colony. He's too young and too inexperienced to understand the consequences of being too gentle."

"Why fear? The colony was going along perfectly fine when we arrived. I saw no issues, neither did you, at least... You weren't very verbal about them if you did, My Diamond."

"He shatters no gems. I have no doubt in my mind that his subjects make mistakes. He doesn't punish them. Poofing a gem is hardly a punishment. They simply reform afterwards, likely with perfect recollection of what they did."

"And... How is it that big of a problem? If a gem causes trouble, he can simply poof them and lock them in a box. That tactic has worked before. At least according to my data."

"That was before Yellow Diamond." Pink Diamond replied, leaning back in her throne.

"Locking a gem away for several thousand years would likely work, My Diamond." The amethyst stated, looking through the data on his device attached to his forearm. A prototype of his.

"Probably, but it's much more effective on the entire colony if a gem who makes mistakes is shattered rather than locked away."

"If you did not trust Yellow Diamond to effectively control this colony like, say you or Purple Diamond, why trust him with with such a position?"

Pink Diamond was quiet. She had many reasons to trust Yellow Diamond with a colony. She began to list them off.

"Well.. I thought it could teach him some new things.. How to be a Diamond, how to be in control of a colony.. To keep him occupied... Get him over the loss of.. I suppose he will learn soon enough.." Pink Diamond quickly ended her list and stood up, her gemstone no longer glowing a vibrant pink.

The amethyst smiled, while his mind began to kick into gear at how she cut herself off before finishing one of the last thoughts.