Peril eyed the basket in her still-cool talons curiously, still trying to understand how this worked. The basket was filled with sand, and Peril had no idea how getting it so hot melted it into the material that she was hoping to make since Clay got her that glass-making scroll.

Clay sat behind her, the scroll in his talons, reading it off for her since she still wasn't the best at reading yet.

"All right, so right here it says to take a couple of scoops of sand and put it in a stone crucible, heat it up until the sand melts," Clay paused, looking up at her with a smile. "It also says that the fire temperature is very hot, but I don't think you'll have an issue with that."

Peril gave him a smile, nodding. "I really have no idea how hot I can really make my fire," she frowned when a memory hit her. "Scarlet said that when I was born, I came out so hot that I melted the stones around me."

Clay tried to keep the spirit going by keeping the smile on his face. "It says after that, you need to purify the molten glass as much as you can so it comes out clear, and when you think you have it to where you want it, pour it out into a mold." Peril and Clay both frowned at that last part.

"I don't have a mold..." Peril said, upset. Clay thought for a minute but perked up when he thought of something, "Wait a second!"

He stood up and stomped into the ground, and a large stone platform came up with a small, recessed edge around the very smooth top. "Do you think this will work?" he asked sheepishly.

Peril smiled and nodded. "I would think?" She looked back down at the sand in the basket. She reached down with her other talon and scooped some out but didn't need a crucible.

She clenched the sand in her talons, and Clay watched as the talon started to glow bright. Peril sat like that for a while, feeling the grainy sand slowly start to harden and then melt in a matter of seconds, a smile coming to her face as she realized it was working.

She walked over to where the mold was and held the glowing talon over it, slowly pouring the liquid out of her talon and down into the mold, the smile on her face growing even more when she saw it working. The brightly glowing liquid filled the shape of the top of the table. Clay watched as well, curious.

"What does it say to do next?" Peril asked him after she opened her talon the rest of the way, the last of the liquid dropping in. Clay realized he had forgotten about the scroll. "Oh!" He quickly looked down and started reading again. "It says it depends on what you are doing. If you are trying to make mirrors or glass windows, then let it cool down from here. Make sure there are no imperfections on the surface," he kept on reading. "If you are trying to make a sculpture, then let it cool down for just a bit, then get your tools out and start shaping it."

Peril froze at that last part... what did she want to make?

Clay noticed that she started to look nervous, realizing why, he gave her a comforting smile. "It doesn't have to be perfect..."

Peril snapped out of it and nodded. "It's not that... it's just that I have no idea what to make and how to do it..."

Clay chuckled at that but started noticing the molten glass changing to a cooler color than a bright orange. "Peril..." he said, pointing down at it.

Peril looked down and realized it was cooling. "OH!" She quickly heated her talon back up and hovered it over the molten glass. It quickly turned back to a bright orange.

She looked back up sheepishly. "So... uh... got any ideas?"

Clay, feeling put on the spot, shrugged his shoulders. "I have no idea..."

Peril sighed. "Does the scroll say anything else?" she asked, keeping her glowing talon over the glass so it would stay in that form.

Clay looked back down at the scroll. He flipped it over onto its other side, happy that it still had more to read. "Tips for your first sculpture," he read the title with a smile.

"What's on it?" she asked the MudWing.

Clay glanced over it. "Half of it looks like tips on working with the glass so it gets into the shape you want," his eyes hit the last part of the scroll. "It does show how to make a star," he said, flipping it over so Peril could see it.

It was an illustration of a NightWing working with a blob in the first image. In the second image, it showed the NightWing smoothing it out into a circle shape and pinching around the edges with tongs, so it started taking the shape of a star.

Peril looked at it a couple more times and nodded. "I could give it a shot."

She let the heat of her talons go down as she lowered it into the mushy glass, trying to focus as she grabbed ahold of one of the edges, slowly bringing them all in until it resembled a circle... a very poor circle. She looked at the image on the scroll again and tried to copy it, bringing in the edges even more.

What she ended up with... looked nothing like a star. Peril watched as it cooled down with a dejected face. Clay walked up next to her, putting a wing on her shoulder. "Now come on, it's your first time trying this. It would be a miracle if anyone did it perfectly on their first try."

Peril turned around upset, so she didn't have to see the lightly glowing blob. "It looks horrible though!" She shook her head. "I followed the instructions, so why didn't it work?"

Clay noticed that the molten glass looked like it cooled down pretty well and grabbed the blob shape, noticing something with the glass and smiling. "I think it went pretty well; you made the glass perfectly."

Peril didn't feel any better. "It doesn't matter if I can't even do the one thing I really wanted to do—" she was cut off when Clay brought the blob shape in front of her, a rainbow sheen on the glass blob that made it shine in a beautiful way.

"It may not be in the shape that you wanted," Clay said with a smile, "but I think it looks great all the same."

Peril looked up at his smiling face. "We are so getting more scrolls for this."