"Thanks," Connie says, letting out a sigh of relief. She was glad that she didn't somehow make the poor man's day worse. Sitting down at Ira's side, Connie smiles weakly. "Us ordinary people have to stick together, right? Considering that this is a pretty un-ordinary situation."

It doesn't cross Connie's mind that fusing into a single entity with her best friend to defeat a hypothetically flawless Gem, getting trained by the basis of most warrior goddess myths on her world, going out to hunt Corrupted Gems on a regular basis, fighting Cluster Mutants in the months leading up to its bubbling, and battling Prism Constructs for almost a week straight before taking down a second "perfect" Gem--that time unfused--aren't things normal humans would be capable of.