Ruby curses at Rat, and asks how the heck she should know what’s going on, and berates him for taking the jewel from her. She also asks where the heck everyone else was last night.
 
Rat ignores Ruby, and walks briskly out the door. The filly turns angrily to the other two ponies for an answer, asking why the guards were after them.
 
“Guards? They were just a bunch of thugs.” Sleepy says.
 
“How is it that a filly has a shrewder eye than you, Sleepy? They were guards, or at the very least military. Though I wonder…” Barber says, tapping her chin in thought. Sleepy and Ruby wait for her to speak again and she says, “Anyway, they wanted that gem. They got all three of us and threatened us with all sorts of harm if we didn’t return it.”
 
“Why didn’t you tell us you took something from the stash, Ruby?” Sleepy asks pointedly.
 
Ruby responds that she didn’t think it was that big of a deal, and that she thought everyone knew since Rat seemed to figure it out pretty quick.
 

 
Emerald asks what happened next, and Ruby says,
 
“We had a fight and… And I ran out. I haven’t actually been back since. Sort of met you shortly afterwards, actually.”
 
Emerald thinks on this story. Maybe they could go and find this ‘Rat’ character and get the gem back. Perhaps it’s better if they just left it alone maybe? What if that gem is just like his. Would Ruby be better off with it?
 
What does Emerald do?
 
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