[This suggestion prompts a giggle.] I can't do the shape water thing, so you'd have to do it all yourself!

[Tragic! So much work!

Before she knows it, the smith is returning to drop a bit of the smelted metal into the water.

Plip it goes into the bucket, and slowly, it drips over itself until it forms a small sphere with lumpy pointed shapes sticking out around the circumference of it. It looks like the sun charm on the bracelet Maya made her.

And sure enough, the smith explains that it's a sun. A symbol of warmth and light. The ultimate life-giver; revered as a symbol of origin to some.]

Whooooa. So...that's a really good fortune, right?