Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171123054740/@comment-4010415-20171128224631

1. One of the things they had told us was that, if it glows, it's likely Dust. It's possible that they originally planned to have Cinder have Dust within her body or something. And... I also really don't think it was fire Dust, considering that A.) Fire Dust is red. It has been since Volume 1, and it still is, even in Volume 5. Consistently. What Cinder was using was orange, not red. B.) Obsidian comes from cooled lava. In Volume 1 Episode 1, the shot that Glynda blocked splattered on the ground as if it was liquid. There was orange Dust in the volcanic biome in the tournament, which had lava geysers. Orange Dust could make lava.

Before Cinder infiltrated the CCT, she was seen sewing black fabric, and while she was in the CCT, her black stealth outfit had some of its designs glow like Dust.

2. How would using Dust be a way for Glynda to identify her? In Field Trip, when Glynda tries to say that the CCT infiltrator matches the description of the woman she fought in the first episode, BUT Ironwood brushes it off with "Embedding Dust into clothing is an age-old technique. It could have been anyone." In other words, Cinder using Dust sewn in her clothes made it to where there was no certainty that she was the same person because it's an age-old technique that literally anyone can use.

The important thing for her at the time was that they not know that she was the one who attacked Amber, which using her Maiden powers would clue them into. If they knew, they would've been trying harder to catch her and would've upped security. They would've sought a solution to the problem with Amber sooner because her attacker was definitely nearby. But they didn't know, as evidenced by Glynda's surprise when Qrow told them in It's Brawl in the Family.