Land of the Lustrous

In a far-off future scarred by six meteor strikes, crystalline beings known as Gems live among the ruins, each assigned a duty to help defend their world. Their greatest threat is the Lunarians, mysterious attackers who descend to fracture Gem bodies and carry the pieces away as ornamentation.

Phosphophyllite—Phos—is young, brittle, and eager to contribute, but their fragility keeps them from the front lines. Given the seemingly modest job of compiling an encyclopedia, Phos’s search for purpose leads to Cinnabar, a sharp-minded Gem confined to solitary night patrols because the poison their body produces is dangerously corrosive. Moved by Cinnabar’s isolation, Phos resolves to find a place where both of them can belong, while striving to protect the other Gems.