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Cai chuckled, lifting a bracer-clad paw and wiggling his toes to flex the claws attached to the bracer. “These help tremendously with skinning clean hides.”

He pulled the roll of hide from the stack and set it by the opening of the alcove before answering, “Water softens it, even rawhide, enough to cut and mold easily.”

He nodded to several large pouches leaned against the wall. “Those are tools, both human and pack-made. A lot of the human tools are ones we found or repurposed. Enito had a few when we met that he gathered after he decided to stick with me.”

He plucked up one of the pouches and set it by the roll of hide, opening the flap to show Rhae the tools within. Knives, shavers, awls and sinew sticks from moose and bison, beeswax and oils in stoppered clay bottles the lemurs had made. Everything a leather-worker needed.

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