[so she has her spear, and now Pearl is going to start hacking away at the garbage bag shirt thing]

I am a gem. I suppose you could think of me as an alien race, since I come from an entirely different solar system. [huh, that's strange. her spear isn't able to cut through the fabric!] But I had been living on earth for over five thousand years. [before, you know, being pulled into Cerealia]