[Peridot sits up a little straighter. She's looking agitated again, not at Steven, but just in general.]

Yes! That was my precise theory as well. It's the only feasible explanation, I mean, you would have told me if something like that happened. But that still leaves us with the big, big problem of why? Why in the cosmos would you ever do something like that?

[The look she ends that thought on is one aimed directly at him, pleading for some kind of explanation.]