"They do!"

"And there's silver for Mom. Are there jet ones? For Cenem."

"I don't think so," she says. "...It's possible I could try making different dyes, but that's tricky. And I'd need something to make it out of and you probably don't have pieces of jet lying around, do you?"

"Not, like, the rock. Cenem could give you a scale!"

"That sounds like it might work!"

Rithka zips back into the house. She comes back a moment later with a shiny black scale.

Rithka watches the tubes gently bloop.

"Perfect!" exclaims Rithka. "You could get more scales and make more colors! You don't have all the dragon colors."

"I don't have all the dragon colours, it's true. But I also don't have a lot of extra Reflective Dyes... it's one of the easiest things to get more of if I can go back to Terraria at all, though."

"Daddy has a lot of dragon scales. He bought tons of them a while ago and now nobody else can get more than a few at a time so he can sell all the dragon scale jewelry."

"That sounds like it's probably working out very well for him. How many dragon colours are there?"

"Thirty!"

"That's more than I could make with just what I have. But maybe I can go back to Terraria, and if I do I'll pick up more dyes to make dragonscale dyes with."

"I mean, you have some of them. There's gold and copper and stuff."

"I think even those might turn out a little bit different. The Reflective Metal Dye doesn't match your hair just so, but the Jet Dragonscale Dye - that's what it called itself - turned out exactly like the scale. I think if I made a Gold Dragonscale Dye it would look more like a gold dragon and less like a shiny gold-coloured mirror."

"I guess. If you made it out of one of my scales would stuff you dyed rust?"

"I don't think so, if it wasn't going to already. Dyeing things doesn't change what they are, in general, just what they look like."

Rithka nods. "What if you made dye out of a rusty scale? Then you might need more than thirty."

"I don't know what a rusty scale dye would turn out like. It might just make whatever dye it was going to make without the rust. Or it could turn out rusted. I'll bring lots extra, anyway, if I get to go collect more dyes."

"Yeah! And you can make them of all kinds of things! Like - like - pretty birds. And gemstones that don't have dragon kinds. And stuff."

"That would be fun."

"Yeah! And if you get lots of extras you could sell Daddy bottles of dye and he could dye anything."

"I'm not sure if the bottles work for people who aren't - properly Terrarian," muses Sable. "Do you want to try dyeing some beads, to find out?"