▛ ▏✤┊▸ SAPPHIRE. ▟ 

                           ❝You’re right. I should have checked. I should have                                                                         seen that it was you. But I DIDN’T. ❞

                            ❝You were TRAPPED all this time and I did nothing                                                                            about it. I am so sorry. ❞       

▌▏✤┊▸ THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. ❞ 

          ——& she stops cold. 

   ❝ you’re – 
             … sorry ?? ❞ 

          she expected anger, she expected to be told she DIDN’T DESERVE to be freed, that she would GIVE AWAY the location of the crystal gems if she were, that she was either unworthy or a liability.

                    she didn’t expect an apology.