For a few long moments she doesn't reply; she's heard that sentiment, that how strong you are or aren't doesn't matter, here on Earth, too often by now not to be irritated by it. It always feels like either she's being chastised for wanting to hold onto something familiar, or a pathetic attempt at consoling her. She hates it.

More than that, it strikes her as unfair that Pearl gets to seize that victory, put her in her place, and then scold her with this platitude for being put in her place.

She looks away with a brisk little huff through her teeth. Pearl's trying to apologise, she reminds herself, not scold her. She... should at least listen, right? Steven would want that.

"I don't think there was anything wrong with it," she says gruffly. "I didn't believe you. You showed me. That's what I would've done."