"O-Oh!" Whoops. Connie had forgotten to give her name in her nerdy fervor, but at the same time her nerdy fervor is what's keeping her from having an internal anxiety spiral from acting like an excitable child to somebody she didn't know in a guild of all adults, so it was a net neutral. "Connie Maheswaran."

"And Gems are, uh..." Very difficult to explain to a stranger, for one. "Okay. So Gems are a species that, uh, project holographic bodies with mass from a gemstone that determines their base appearance, powers, and some aspects of their personalities. They nearly conquered and rendered my planet to a lifeless husk around five thousand years ago, but there was a rebellion started by the Crystal Gems--named after the system Earth is in, to my understanding. They won, but at a great cost, and now I'm one of the... six or seven, depending on your point of view, remaining members of the order. And the only fully human member."