At the center of the camp was a small fire contained within a hastily constructed fire pit. The usual one-time use firegems were missing, instead replaced by these human tools. Her mate called them fire-starters, which really consisted of basically two tools. One was the ‘flint lighter’, which was a simple looking metallic stick with a wheel at one end that could cause sparks with a simple flick of a finger (or claw, in her case). It was also reusable. The second was the ‘fire-tabs’, little cotton knotted ropes that caught fire quite quickly, even when wet.