"Yeah! It's, um, a magitek thing. Explaining would probably take me hours to somebody without the proper asterisk and I hardly understand it myself, so, uh, I'll just skip that part," Connie says, rubbing the back of her neck. Having an asterisk was... weird. It was like reading a Gem-to-English dictionary without any prior knowledge of one of the languages, a bunch of out of context clues and tidbits that you had to puzzle out the grammar yourself in order to create complete sentences.

"I'm just happy I can use magic--well, sorta magic--at all, really. It wasn't really a thing humans can do on my world. If it exists at all. It's hard to tell what's technology and what's hocus pocus with the Gems."