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After the defeat of Black Azezulite, and Smokey’s own recovery, Rose had found her mistress changing work rooms, she no longer spent all her time in the library but was now in the map room, Rose had also learned that the room was not dedicated purely to maps as Smokey had been drawing up blueprints, schematics, and lists of required materials. For the first while she had no idea what her mistress had been working on, until the weekend came and they sat down for the morning tea. “So Rose, I imagine you’ve been curious as to what I have been up to?” Smokey asked of her pearl.

Rose finished serving herself and adding the honey to her tea when she nodded “Yes, but I wasn’t going to pry since you seem to be doing better” she responded softly

Smokey smiled “you shouldn’t be afraid to ask, but it was something of a surprise anyway. Now that Az isn’t a threat I plan on modifying this old cavern system, updating it, finishing the rooms, and so forth” she smiled as Rose nodded “but I’m stuck on a few rooms, namely, I was wondering what you’d like for the personal accommodations?”

Rose blushed deeply, her pink flesh turning a much deeper and richer shade of pink as she mumbled a barley audible response that would have been lost to the world had they been outside with even a moderate breeze to muffle the sounds “To be with you”

Smokey smiled “well, that’s easy enough then, I’ll make our room out of one of the larger caverns” she smiled back at Rose, the teensy amount of blush visible upon her light grey flesh.

The weekend had been spent with the pair not only walking about the island, but also visiting other locations on earth from the warp pad, none were particularly populated as they were forests, canyons or ancient gem ruins, the rest of the week however had been something of a world tour with the pair visiting a great many human cities, where Smokey would take out a simple sketch pad and make notes on things that she and rose looked at. After the massive sightseeing expedition Smokey had again returned to the map room to draw up the final plans.

Smokey’s designs for the island cave network were rather extensive, she had come up with a new stone dock designed to replace the remnants of old wooden dock the pirates had improvised centuries prior, tile had been selected for the floor, and Smokey had decided that it would be harder but more ascetically pleasing to reshape the cavern stone walls then to simply cover them up with wood walls, she would however make use of wood for the doors, furniture, and architectural highlights. The next while was spent with Smokey alternating between chopping trees down and converting them into lumber, or evening out and reshaping the walls and ceiling of the cavern from natural curves caused by erosion to grand arcs with flat surfaces, and a level floor.

For the first few days of this Rose had been content to simply watch her mistress work, after that she had gotten a bit antsy about not being given orders to help out, and so she had taken the initiative to ask how she could help with the construction. Smokey had looked at Rose like she’d grown a second head for a few seconds but smiled and given Rose a number of tasks, such as making the paste that would become the new lighting for the cavern in place of lanterns and torches’, she had also left Rose with the job of cutting the lumber into pieces for use in creating the doors, or simple blocks for creating the furniture, Rose had also been trusted with making various measurements and cutting wood or stone to fit the designs Smokey had provided. Smokey Quartz had found that all of this was a terrible terrible mistake on her part. Rose was atrocious at construction. Her measurements were always off, her cuts were awkward and uneven, ruining the piece of stone or timber she had used, and she had terrible stamina for simply carrying around the many heavy loads of materials Smokey needed to work with. It wasn’t long before Smokey realized that, as much as she loved Rose, she’d never get her construction project done so long as the pearl continued to ‘help’ not when her light paste could explode, how that was possible still baffled Smokey as she was sure none of the ingredients were actually explosive.

“Rose? Sweetie?” Smokey began in her softest, kindest and most reassuring voice that night which immediately alerted Rose to the fact that something was dreadfully wrong.

“Y-yes?” she asked hesitantly

“I think, maybe you should take a vacation for a few weeks while I work on the renovations” Smokey said, her voice as soft and kind as she could make it while she delivered the news.

Mentally, Rose was freaking out, she was being abandoned again, by Smokey this time “b-but, I” she stopped herself, she was going to say she didn’t know why Smokey would say something like that, she wanted to say how she’d been helping and making things easier. Except she couldn’t lie to herself that badly, and certainty not to Smokey. Rose had ruined a lot of timber and stone and caused Smokey to go out and cut down more tree’s or carve up more blocks of stone. Even the rather simple tasks proved to problematic for Rose. She wasn’t strong enough to go around all day carrying the heavy materials about, she’d often find herself struggling or winded from carrying around a few small logs or stones while her mistress would carry about many times what Rose carried without much effort at all. Rose’s other tasks had not been much better, Smokey had spent enough time trying to demonstrate how to even out the floors for Rose that honestly, it would have been faster for her to do it herself, Rose’s tile paste had been a disaster as well, the first batch was just sandy water, the second had hardened into cement with Smokey’s hand still inside as she tried to scoop out her first handful of the stuff. Then there was the light paste, and all the little bits of ‘simple’ gem tech that she had been given to work with. All of which tended to explode, short circuit, or otherwise injure herself or Smokey in the process. Honestly, as much as she wanted to feel otherwise, she was a bit amazed Smokey hadn’t kicked her off the island sooner, two solid weeks of construction accidents really did extend beyond reasonable patience. With a long and heavy sigh she nodded “I understand” she said a bit heart broken.

Smokey hugged her “it won’t be for long, I just need a month or so, I’m sure you have some friends you could visit, like that Lapis Lazuli you brought to talk some senses into me, or that Quartz fellow…..” Smokey paused and reconsidered “Actually no, stay away from him. Stay very far away from him” she said in a flat serious tone of voice “but you must have other friends you’ve not visited with for a while, I’m sure they worry about you” she reassured Rose.

Rose smiled and nodded, Smokey was right, Rose didn’t have many friends, Lazuli wasn’t one of those friends, but Rose wasn’t going to correct her mistress either….. and maybe it would be a good idea to visit Seriphos, she hadn’t spoken to the other quartz in some time. Rose nodded “I suppose I could visit some gems I know” she said a bit dejectedly

Smokey hugged her pearl and kissed her “I know you don’t like being on your own, but I promise it won’t be for long”

In the morning Rose headed to the warp pad and Smokey saw her off. Afterwards Smokey redoubled her construction efforts.

The first thing she got done was the dock, stone slabs and pillars in place and held together by the weight of the marble she had decided to use. Rather than typical adhesive or the use of spikes Smokey had opted to have each slap to lock into place with its neighbours creating a rather seamless designee that looked more like a single giant marble structure then a series of interlocked marble slabs. Afterwards she had started on the hallways and rooms leveling out the floors that she had yet to get to, and re-leveling the floors Rose had tried to level. It took longer then she’d have liked on her own but it was still going several times faster without Rose to ‘help’. Once the cave walls and floor of the cavern were in workable states she began in earnest her designee efforts.

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After the defeat of Black Azezulite, and Smokey’s own recovery, Rose had found her mistress changing work rooms, she no longer spent all her time in the library but was now in the map room, Rose had also learned that the room was not dedicated purely to maps as Smokey had been drawing up blueprints, schematics, and lists of required materials. For the first while she had no idea what her mistress had been working on, until the weekend came and they sat down for the morning tea. “So Rose, I imagine you’ve been curious as to what I have been up to?” Smokey asked of her pearl.

Rose finished serving herself and adding the honey to her tea when she nodded “Yes, but I wasn’t going to pry since you seem to be doing better” she responded softly

Smokey smiled “you shouldn’t be afraid to ask, but it was something of a surprise anyway. Now that Az isn’t a threat I plan on modifying this old cavern system, updating it, finishing the rooms, and so forth” she smiled as Rose nodded “but I’m stuck on a few rooms, namely, I was wondering what you’d like for the personal accommodations?”

Rose blushed deeply, her pink flesh turning a much deeper and richer shade of pink as she mumbled a barley audible response that would have been lost to the world had they been outside with even a moderate breeze to muffle the sounds “To be with you”

Smokey smiled “well, that’s easy enough then, I’ll make our room out of one of the larger caverns” she smiled back at Rose, the teensy amount of blush visible upon her light grey flesh.

The weekend had been spent with the pair not only walking about the island, but also visiting other locations on earth from the warp pad, none were particularly populated as they were forests, canyons or ancient gem ruins, the rest of the week however had been something of a world tour with the pair visiting a great many human cities, where Smokey would take out a simple sketch pad and make notes on things that she and rose looked at. After the massive sightseeing expedition Smokey had again returned to the map room to draw up the final plans.

Smokey’s designs for the island cave network were rather extensive, she had come up with a new stone dock designed to replace the remnants of old wooden dock the pirates had improvised centuries prior, tile had been selected for the floor, and Smokey had decided that it would be harder but more ascetically pleasing to reshape the cavern stone walls then to simply cover them up with wood walls, she would however make use of wood for the doors, furniture, and architectural highlights. The next while was spent with Smokey alternating between chopping trees down and converting them into lumber, or evening out and reshaping the walls and ceiling of the cavern from natural curves caused by erosion to grand arcs with flat surfaces, and a level floor.

For the first few days of this Rose had been content to simply watch her mistress work, after that she had gotten a bit antsy about not being given orders to help out, and so she had taken the initiative to ask how she could help with the construction. Smokey had looked at Rose like she’d grown a second head for a few seconds but smiled and given Rose a number of tasks, such as making the paste that would become the new lighting for the cavern in place of lanterns and torches’, she had also left Rose with the job of cutting the lumber into pieces for use in creating the doors, or simple blocks for creating the furniture, Rose had also been trusted with making various measurements and cutting wood or stone to fit the designs Smokey had provided. Smokey Quartz had found that all of this was a terrible terrible mistake on her part. Rose was atrocious at construction. Her measurements were always off, her cuts were awkward and uneven, ruining the piece of stone or timber she had used, and she had terrible stamina for simply carrying around the many heavy loads of materials Smokey needed to work with. It wasn’t long before Smokey realized that, as much as she loved Rose, she’d never get her construction project done so long as the pearl continued to ‘help’ not when her light paste could explode, how that was possible still baffled Smokey as she was sure none of the ingredients were actually explosive.

“Rose? Sweetie?” Smokey began in her softest, kindest and most reassuring voice that night which immediately alerted Rose to the fact that something was dreadfully wrong.

“Y-yes?” she asked hesitantly

“I think, maybe you should take a vacation for a few weeks while I work on the renovations” Smokey said, her voice as soft and kind as she could make it while she delivered the news.

Mentally, Rose was freaking out, she was being abandoned again, by Smokey this time “b-but, I” she stopped herself, she was going to say she didn’t know why Smokey would say something like that, she wanted to say how she’d been helping and making things easier. Except she couldn’t lie to herself that badly, and certainty not to Smokey. Rose had ruined a lot of timber and stone and caused Smokey to go out and cut down more tree’s or carve up more blocks of stone. Even the rather simple tasks proved to problematic for Rose. She wasn’t strong enough to go around all day carrying the heavy materials about, she’d often find herself struggling or winded from carrying around a few small logs or stones while her mistress would carry about many times what Rose carried without much effort at all. Rose’s other tasks had not been much better, Smokey had spent enough time trying to demonstrate how to even out the floors for Rose that honestly, it would have been faster for her to do it herself, Rose’s tile paste had been a disaster as well, the first batch was just sandy water, the second had hardened into cement with Smokey’s hand still inside as she tried to scoop out her first handful of the stuff. Then there was the light paste, and all the little bits of ‘simple’ gem tech that she had been given to work with. All of which tended to explode, short circuit, or otherwise injure herself or Smokey in the process. Honestly, as much as she wanted to feel otherwise, she was a bit amazed Smokey hadn’t kicked her off the island sooner, two solid weeks of construction accidents really did extend beyond reasonable patience. With a long and heavy sigh she nodded “I understand” she said a bit heart broken.

Smokey hugged her “it won’t be for long, I just need a month or so, I’m sure you have some friends you could visit, like that Lapis Lazuli you brought to talk some senses into me, or that Quartz fellow…..” Smokey paused and reconsidered “Actually no, stay away from him. Stay very far away from him” she said in a flat serious tone of voice “but you must have other friends you’ve not visited with for a while, I’m sure they worry about you” she reassured Rose.

Rose smiled and nodded, Smokey was right, Rose didn’t have many friends, Lazuli wasn’t one of those friends, but Rose wasn’t going to correct her mistress either….. and maybe it would be a good idea to visit Seriphos, she hadn’t spoken to the other quartz in some time. Rose nodded “I suppose I could visit some gems I know” she said a bit dejectedly

Smokey hugged her pearl and kissed her “I know you don’t like being on your own, but I promise it won’t be for long”

In the morning Rose headed to the warp pad and Smokey saw her off. Afterwards Smokey redoubled her construction efforts.

The first thing she got done was the dock, stone slabs and pillars in place and held together by the weight of the marble she had decided to use. Rather than typical adhesive or the use of spikes Smokey had opted to have each slap to lock into place with its neighbours creating a rather seamless designee that looked more like a single giant marble structure then a series of interlocked marble slabs. Afterwards she had started on the hallways and rooms leveling out the floors that she had yet to get to, and re-leveling the floors Rose had tried to level. It took longer then she’d have liked on her own but it was still going several times faster without Rose to ‘help’. Once the cave walls and floor of the cavern were in workable states she began in earnest her designee efforts.