Comet nodded, it felt good to know that James didn't think badly of him. Oh yeah! Jampa! She was pretty sure she had seen the hybrid during the festivities in Polaris. It was hard to miss the child of Pride and Tenzin. Feeling a bit reassured, she looked back down at the stone. She wouldn't want to have the stone revived, if it even worked, only for whoever came out to not be happy.
Comet leaned into his wing, feeling comforted by its warmth and his words. "Yeah, I hope so." Truthfully, she had never met the pangolin before. But there was just something about witnessing someone's death that connects them to you in some way. And that was what she felt about the pangolin. She didn't even know his name! Comet didn't tell James about what she had seen happen to him, only telling him the part about finding the stone. That had been too horrible for her to repeat.
"Guess it's time to find out." she sniffled, giving the horse a sad yet hopeful smile. Comet turned towards the large pool of water, and called out, "Tenzin? Could I please talk to you?"
Comet watched in awe as the icy phoenix arose from the lagoon. This wasn't her first time meeting him, but she never failed to be amazed at how majestic and powerful he looked. There was also the fact that this meeting felt much more personal. It was her question that he had arose for, and she and James were the only two gembounds here to see him.
Mouth still agape in amazement, Comet was glad that James spoke first. "Oh, um, yes." it was her turn now, and she walked a bit closer at the horse's nudging. Fidgeting her paws, she smiled at Tenzin, "I just wanted to ask, would it be possible for you to help me revive my friend's stone?" Was he a friend? Perhaps. They had never talked, nor actually interacted, but she wanted to do this for him. "I tried to see if there was any life in it, but it's empty. I don't think any normal gembound would be able to help bring the stone to life again." Comet placed the star sapphire on the ground in front of her, its sparkles holding beauty but no life. She gave Tenzin a nervous smile. Tenzin was someone she admired, and just being in his presence made it hard for her to talk.
She shivered a bit, both from the cold and from Tenzin's gratitude, and responded with a smile. She followed the phoenix's gaze back to the stone. The confirmation that it was lifeless hurt, even though she had cast a spell before to see if it held any life, and that had failed. Comet had been holding a little bit of hope in her that maybe it did have life, just too little for her to feel it. But now it was confirmed by someone else that there really wasn't any life left.
Same... except with a new shape? That wasn't exactly what she wanted, but when she really thought about it, it still seemed to work. Her siblings acted similarly to Aristotle, despite many of them looking pretty different. The appearance had no effect on how they acted, and they wouldn't remember anything about before, so why should that matter?
"Could you revive it? Please?" There might not be a pangolin from the stone, but it was going to be a new life nonetheless. And it was the personality that counted. Then she looked to James, eager to hear an answer to that question. Comet didn't think about what the horse might be thinking about when he said that however.