"They're... getting better now," Greg says. "Like-- they're still a lot, you know? But they're getting better. And... huh. Did she know you'd been Pink or was she an earlier Blue, like Connie's a later Connie?"

After a moment he adds, "The zoomans were doing okay, last I heard. They have a kind of weird life, because it's based on what gems assume humans need... but it wasn't such a bad life to live with them for a couple days. They were happy in their way, even if they didn't know what Earth was like. I wasn't too stressed about things, until the whole choosening thing came up. Since I didn't, uh, want to be assigned to breed with anyone. But that's when Steven and I broke out, anyway."