[It's the separation between the microcrystals that makes them so durable, as it turns out. Where an impact that might shatter Diamond would travel far through their solid mass of crystal, that same impact is stopped short by Bortz's disjointed microcrystals. They can chip, but it takes a hell of a hit to break them, to break through all those tiny individual diamonds.]
It'll require both hardness and intense force or pressure.
[And humans are...so frail. They somehow doubt she has that much strength in her small body. Their current streak of avoiding any kind of damage was decades long -- possibly centuries, they lost count after a while -- and only half of that was due to pure fighting skill.
They eye the rough diamond for a moment, and then their own hand -- hard and tough as the rest of them, but with such thin fingers...]
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It'll require both hardness and intense force or pressure.
[And humans are...so frail. They somehow doubt she has that much strength in her small body. Their current streak of avoiding any kind of damage was decades long -- possibly centuries, they lost count after a while -- and only half of that was due to pure fighting skill.
They eye the rough diamond for a moment, and then their own hand -- hard and tough as the rest of them, but with such thin fingers...]
I can probably do it.