Nary could a dust particle nor a stray case file be seen in the office of Zircon. Her small flat gleamed with the results of borderline obsessive cleaning. Zircon did not overly enjoy cleaning; however, because of all her important clients, she deemed it important to look her best.

Her clients had started out small. Ruby infractions-pranks played on superior Rubies, who did not really care, and often excused their underlings' behavior, to the fury of the prosecuting team. Jaspers accused of taking some small, worthless possession of an Agate. Most times, Zircon only had to sniff around and trace her clients' steps, in the end revealing the missing item. Lapis Lazulis accused of performing subpar terraforming work for some outer colony. Often, Zircon needed to physically restrain the Lazulis to prevent them from unleashing physical retribution onto their doubters. (The skills of a Lazuli were unparalleled, after all.)

With these early successes came more important clients, more important cases, some which ended in tragedy, others in success.

Then, Zircon hit the big leagues, and, in her eyes, failed spectacularly. Her first truly prestigious mission from the innards of Blue Diamond's Royal Courts: a missing Obsidian. Blue Zircon had scoured Homeworld for her, eager to prove to Blue Diamond's underlings she could be trusted with difficult tasks. Obsidian served Blue Diamond loyally as a royal librarian, but had one flaw: her desire to explore. Obsidians did not 'explore'; she left behind easily followed traces and tracks. Zircon celebrated her acquirement of an easy case, and trailed the Obsidian far outside Blue Diamond's center of operations, on the outskirts of Homeworld. Zircon came across a fine black powder in a chasm, with jagged black pieces of Gem radiating outward in a starburst.

After falling 50 feet, right off a cliff, Obsidian poofed and shattered. This case tied several others for 'most Gem-wracking report to the client'. Zircon could only be thankful Her Diamond's Court did not take the case's awful ending as Zircon's fault. After this, Zircon would not have been surprised if the Royal Court demoted her utterly. Indeed, for 100 years, Blue Zircon did not receive the same level of cases as before; slowly, word about her improved.

Unbeknownst to her, the Royal Court had taken notice of her quick findings about Obsidian, though the poor, ditzy Gem herself had been smashed. After all, Blue Zircon had reported back immediately, though in stutters and nearly half-finished words.

Another Royal Court case found its way to her after 100 years. Blue Zircon readied herself to go above and beyond on this case. Someone in the Royal Court had given her a second chance; Blue Zircon would not disappoint!

The case involved misplaced files in White Diamond's Bureau. Blue Zircon did not expect to be assigned to such a case; it seemed more like the job of a Private Investigator. Still, she needed to get back into the Royal Court's good graces. She traveled to the Bureau. A Sodalite ushered her around the Bureau.

The practicality and grace of White Diamond's Bureau impressed Blue Zircon. She juggled her time between admiring the Diamond's center of operations, and having the guards rustle up those files. All the while, she couldn't help but notice that the Sodalite held a clipboard. Every so often, she wrote down a few sentences, or a massive paragraph.

Blue Zircon tried to gently feel up the Sodalite, to get an inkling of what she wrote. The Sodalite tilted her entire body away from Zircon, face cracking into a large smile. Zircon sighed. Surely, the Sodalite wrote down notes about her performance. Blue Zircon upped her ante, and found the files within an hour. They had been misplaced in a similar-sounding kernel, where White Diamond kept all important files. Blue Zircon read the name of the files as she refiled them correctly.

They pertained to the colony of Earth. Blue Zircon quickly stuffed down the files. She didn't desire to know more. Judging by the rumors swirling around Earth and Pink Diamond, one could get in trouble.

After Blue Zircon reported in her success, it struck her. Why was she, and not a trusted Zircon, given this assignment? Had this been a test? That would explain the constant note-taking of the Sodalite.

Soon after her next investigation of a Seraphinite's odd behavior, everything cleared. She knew exactly why. After so many years of loyal service, Zircon's legal and detective prowess had been rewarded by assigning her the most difficult cases of Blue Diamond's Royal Court. Indeed, she had been weighed, tested, and had not been found wanting.

What seemed to be pointless, dull, routine investigations of a Seraphinite for squabbling with her fellow coworkers did a complete 180. Zircon had noticed an irregularity in the Seraphinite's Gem-strange off-color spiderwebbing. This caused a chain of abductions, culminating in a confrontation. Zircon never expected the Seraphinite to draw a horrible, jagged two-bladed dagger and attack her. The Seraphinite gouged Zircon's shoulder and pinned her hand to a desk. Zircon destroyed her hand, tearing it away, and leaping out the cubbyhole, alerting the Agate guards.

The Seraphinite was a dangerous serial shatterer. She had avoided detection for so long; the Guards did not have any evidence to suspect her in any way. So someone in the Royal Court had assigned Blue Zircon to the case, saying she "had a knack for cold cases". Essentially, a Royal Court member had believed that Blue Zircon would grate against the Seraphinite enough to draw her out. Blue Zircon complained, but no one listened-just congratulated her on drawing out the killer.

And thus opened the floodgates of nasty, tough cold cases from Blue's Royal Court. The Court set Blue Zircon to do everything from flush out and defend shatterers to locate a Green Pearl's missing star navigation map monogrammed with Blue Diamond's signature.

None of this compared to what came next-the culmination of Blue Zircon's many-thousand-year-long breakneck career. Blue Diamond's Pearl herself came to Zircon's flat one day.

Blue Zircon hastened to make the Pearl comfortable; she invited her in. The Blue Pearl declined with a raising of her hand, then read from a blue scroll that Blue Zircon had been summoned to Her Diamond's antechamber.

…

"Do you mean Blue Diamond's antechamber?" Zircon forced herself to say. She had been taken entirely off guard.

"Yes."

"Do you the personal chamber of Blue Diamond herself?" Blue Zircon supposed she looked like an idiot, asking that question, but this turn of events boggled her mind.

"Yes."

"Where Blue Diamond herself will be sitting?" Blue Zircon asked, panicking. Her appearance and form did not befit a Diamond; she had to get ready, to mentally prepare herself…

The Pearl nodded in the affirmative.

"I'm going to be in front of Blue Diamond…" Blue Zircon half-whispered to herself.

"There is no need to prepare," announced the Blue Pearl. Her two Jasper guards lifted Zircon into the air, and the entire contingent dashed off into the heart of Blue Diamond's Royal Court.