"I am?" Pearl hiccups, eyes still tightly closed even as the colors blooming against them begin to fade. The tears flow uninterrupted, lukewarm against feverish skin. Her body feels like it's crumbled apart, clumps of beach-sand between Garnet's fingers; release had washed over her unexpected and without permission, and she's still barely registering that it happened at all, skin buzzing with an alien electricity. It's never felt like this.

"W-was that okay?" Do I need to be punished again?