Oh man, I don't know where to start with this, it's just so impressive. The editing is amazing - your late-stage use of the paneling effect is so smart. The facets, the edges of the jewels, beautiful and whole, but disconnected and divided, sharply. All of them here, but especially Pearl, in so many iterations of brittle rigidity, but trying slowly, slowly, to become flexible. To survive the heat and fire of change and be something new, and stronger, but not harder.

I love this so much.