C'mon Baby Light My Fire

The man introduced himself as Ulric and he started helping to collect the firewood. Skælingr had to admit he was grateful for the help and he moved to the wooded areas as well, looking mainly for branches that had fallen during the storms. Those that he could he broke into smaller pieces, some he just had to leave. When he returned Ulric had already gathered a fair number of sticks. Skælingr took the sticks and laid them in between the large fuel logs that had been set up to form something of a square but with the logs stacked crosswise. When that was done he set in the kindling. He next took out a few pieces of flint and some of steal from his travois. "Here, if you'd like to try. This is how my companion lights the fires when he's here. You'll want to hold the flint with your paw and the metal in your mouth and try to strike the two together." Skælingr moved to demonstrate. He fixed the flint between his paws and swung his head with the metal between his teeth toward the fire so that when the metal struck the flint it would send sparks toward the fire. He ended up pausing to move the kindling a bit closer, making a short trail of it then trying again.