The crystal glows, gives off light and LIGHT again when she touches it to place it in the pouch.

"Fresher is the same thing as bathroom, must be," Ibani agrees. "I will clean my teeth after we eat with the brush and the paste. Can't taste worse than the tooth fungus I had to use before." She makes a face at the memory.

"Oh, the red ration bars, those are the good ones!" 'Good' is relative. The red ones have a taste that might be called fruit adjacent if one is being very generous. "I think I've heard the others talk about some of these, but I've never had them."