[ She shakes her head. ] Mmm. Perhaps emphasizing the distance over the scope of the problem is doing this discussion a disservice. It's just, all this magic, and these supernatural beings... It's an entire facet of reality that was previously unknown to me or any other gem scientist. And then the entities responsible for threatening all these other worlds. When they squabble, it's like--

[ She pauses, struggling to find the right words. ]

...It's like, if the Diamonds were some kind of conflict producing machinery, and the dial that controlled the intensity of their squabbling, was somehow turned WAY past it's maximum setting.

[ Gee IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME USEFUL HUMAN IDIOM TO DESCRIBE THAT. ]