Library, Wednesday

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Peridot didn't want to be here today. The whole... thing... with everyone on the island being a child had freaked her out more than a little bit. It was bad enough she was on a race of short-lived organic beings that grew and changed and then withered away. To have them all regress that way was wreaking havoc on her head.

And then she'd been attacked by turkeys in class, and that about tore it.

So half of her shift was going to be spent distractedly doing actual library work.

The rest of her shift was going to be spent booking a portal ticket. Not for long, no; it was a return ticket, in fact. But there was a sale on tickets to her own version of Earth for Thanksgiving, and it couldn't hurt to be somewhere that made sense for a little while, right?

[OOC: 'Dot is goin' home for the holiday! Last chance to see her before she takes off for a bit!]

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"So..." Peridot frowned a little more, reaching for her phone again, mostly to just kind of fidget with while she thought. "She was corrupted, but she kept her mind? It just wasn't... wasn't her anymore."

She wasn't sure if that was better or worse than completely losing oneself and becoming a drooling monster.

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"As far as I can tell," Jason nodded. "There wasn't really a lot of time for conversation."

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"Fair enough," Peridot allowed, still frowning. "Is that sort of corruption uncommon, then?"

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"Where it's something outside yourself that makes you that way?" Jason asked. "Yeah, I think. Usually it's just that people who get a taste of power decide they want more of it." Which... could have happened to Rita too, he supposed, but her gem-coin-thing hadn't seemed to work the way the Power Rangers' had, so that was why he figured there was probably a connection.

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"Well," Peridot said after a long pause. "That's... horrifying."

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"Right?" Jason said with a nod. "I slapped her into space, though."

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Peridot hesitated a moment, and then nodded her satisfaction.

She wasn't going to point out that drifting aimlessly through space was equally horrifying.

"If anything ever corrupts me... poof me," she said, suddenly. "Better to have no form than be anything but myself."