Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-9090085-20130706045355/@comment-112.209.42.110-20130706082628

well, Monty did say that u don't need a weapon to use dust. and to answer the question the dust might have been stored in that cross clip and gave her extra power, instead of glowing it was some kind of black,reddish,purpleish shadow.

maybe the permenant effects of dust are like when u for EXAMPLE have a gun that can shot lots of shots but u run out and need to reload like how long a fruit is gonna stay fresh till it rots OR maybe lets say that Adam uses too much dust and it somehow rebounds or effects him mentally and physically maybe thats the reason he has the mask on cause the dust effected his eyes. Finally dust might require a price to its use.... like u need to give up something in order to take control for depending on how much u give is how long u can use it.( funny that kinda sounded like the law of alchemy in fullmetal alchemist...hahaha)

hope this helps