*doesn't understand everything but also doesn't dare to ask for details*
*soon gets overwhelmed by informations she can't really understand and relate to each other*
*starts to cry from hunger and despair*
Oh. *chuckles* A gem is usually a shiny stone that looks nice, but is otherwise worthless. Very few gems contain life, and those are the precious ones. You can see if a gem lives if you put it near some kind of energy source, for example into the sunlight, near something warm, things like that. If it is a life-containing gem, it will hatch into a living being. Just like an egg.
*sighs* A white substance inside those life-containing gems. It is the essence of .... of the gem people's life, if you can see this substance, the person it belonged to is dead. You humans are completely different beings, so it is hard to explain.
*stares with big eyes at the dragon*
*looks around but can only see the dragon's body and the sky above her*
*attempts to climb but only cuts her fingers at the sharp scales so she falls back down*