She folds it in her hand, trying to feel what special powers it might have. Balance, eh? She'd never really worked with anything other than a Fire Gem. This could be interesting indeed. But experimenting was for later. She puts the stone in her belt pouch for safekeeping, and thanks the Animas once more as he pushed them out of his hut.

She turns to Zrstlagd, raising an amused eyebrow. "I would think he knows quite a great deal," she says dryly as they walk back to the inn. "It's a fabulous collection. I admit, I never had heard anyone talk to a Gem that way before," she reflects. She wondered what her Fire Gem would have to say about anything, or whether what it had gone through in the Navy had perhaps silenced whatever it had to say.