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Thorn hopped up and went back over to the row of materials. What was there next to try? He gave up on the wood entirely- it just wasn't his thing. A small stone caught his eye. It was rough and blue, but it shone underneath. It had to be a gemstone of some sort or another, but what to do with it? Thorn tried to polish it, using his Will alone, but all that happened was the stone rolled over a few times. "Do I need water for this?" he asked. The stone was boring, and hard to lift. He really didn't want to keep on working with it, but there was no harm in trying. He thought of the sensation that ripped through him whenever he worked with metal, but nothing happened to the stone. He decided to put the stupid rock down and see if anything could be done with the berries.

Thorn nodded, not noticing the cord. "Sure. I'm giving up on this goofy rock. I'll play around with the cloth and strings next, but... I think I want to work with metal, Liam." He surrendered the metal piece gingerly, missing its cold weight against his talon.

Thorn watched his Minder intensely. What was he doing to his shape? When he saw it dangling from the cord, he understood immediately. "Ah!" he squeaked, hopping over to Liam as quickly as he could.

Thorn beamed. The metal felt cool against his feathers, but it made him feel warm inside to wear it. "Thank you, Liam!" He snuggled into Liam's belly feathers, in a Sentinel version of a hug. The edge of the odd shape pressed into the older Sentinel's stomach, a strange feeling. Liam said nothing, though, and Thorn pulled away, staring down at the pendant. "I feel like a Crafter already!"

Thorn bobbed his head eagerly and went back to the materials, shape flopping against his chest. He looked at the berries and the cloth. "I'm gonna try staining this cloth red, I think." Using the discarded rock and another, larger rock, he crushed one of the red berries, then wiped the cloth over it. He repeated this for about an hour, getting the entire cloth red.

Liam smiled at his charge as he cleaned his nest. So eager! So young! He remembered when his father tested his Will when he was a fledgling. He hadn't done so well at anything but knot-tying.

Lore called at the enterence. "Hello?" she asked. She had wanted to drop by to see her friend Thorn, but wasn't quite sure what he and Liam were doing. She hopped into the nest with them. "What's going on, guys?"

"Wow, that's pretty, Thorn! You're good at that!" Lore exclaimed. "Look at all this stuff! This looks like fun!" she said, her eyes aglow at the contents of the nest. She picked up a small piece of stone with her Will, dropped it, picked up a stick, dropped it too, picking up some berries she had nearly stepped on before dropping them in favor of anouther trinket. It was harder than she thought to hold objects in the air, and her attention kept wandering from object to object which didn't help.

Lore's eye's glowed brighter when she saw the metal scrap the Skurri brought. It was very shiny. "Thanks." she said to Roth, nodding. She tried to lift the scrap with her Will as she had done with the other objects. It seemed easier. Much easier. Lore moved it to eye level, investigating it with her Will. "Hmmm..." she muttered, and concentraited. The metal twisted under her Will, no longer flat but twisted in a spiral. "This is awsome!" Lore exclaimed. Her balance tipped slighty, though, and she wavered. Working with her Will was harder than she thought. The metal seemed to want to help her more than the other stuborn substances, though, and was much easier to work with though it was harder to bend than wood and tougher than the nuts. Lore fiddled with the metal a bit more, absorbed in seeing how it reacted when she did this and that.

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The twisted metal scrap clanked to the floor. To someone experienced it might have looked like a seashell. "Yay! Finaly somthing I'm good at!" Lore crowed exuberantly. "You too, Thorn? That's awsome! That means we're both going to be crafters! Right Liam?" Lore gazed at him hopefully.