Sunlight is the honest test for a polished stone. Under a lamp, most of them look fine. Put them in direct sun and you find out what they have really got. These are the ones that lit up.
The stone at the top: rust and orange swirls with a couple of little bullseyes near the edge, and a polish that holds the light like glass.
A web of orange veins across a rounded stone. Every line came out crisp.
Black, rust and mustard in one small stone. It stands up on its own, which I find hilarious.
Orange with streaks of yellow running straight through it, like a sunset somebody tumbled smooth.
And one that is not fire at all. Brown, with pale green and white orbs floating in it. I keep thinking it is a tiny planet.
Same gray surface, same sun, five different stones.