And yet no greater, but more eminent

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WHO: Jake Jensen
WHERE: Around the village, further out from the village, in house 8 and the Inn
WHEN: First part of January
OPEN TO: Anyone
WARNINGS: None really applicable

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A new education, the same skills - The Inn, the Village, and Beyond

They lived close enough to the Inn that Jake just considered it a second part of their home. Easy enough to go over there many a morning for breakfast, pour over some of the notes left there by others, gather a few odds and ends and head out for the day. Sometimes he'd be gone a few days, others he could be seen trudging back late into the evening.

Some days he can be seen closer to the village, collecting withering flowers, or using paper cones from pages torn from the back of a book to try and gather up dust moths and glass ants. Utilizing his ready and Cougar's notes, he steals items from their own kitchen and the "lost and found" at the inn to help him harvest and gather things he takes back to the house.

Christmas might be late, but it's appreciated - House #8, South Village

It all kind of happens at once. There's a box sitting on the counter in the kitchen. A plain white box with no bow or ribbon. Within is a very familiar looking pirate hat, battered and worn, and a package of boxers. Black with red hearts. A pair in a muted Hawaiian print. A third leopard print.

As he's standing there, marveling over how those items ended up here, just as he has taken to Cougar's words, the lights come on in the kitchen. It doesn't take long to learn there are working lights throughout the house, the stove no works, and there's a sewing machine in the third bedroom. It's as if whatever powers that be knew of Jake's new endeavor and are helping. Maybe they are observers after all.

Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth though, Jake is quick to strip down into boxers, put the hat on and get working. Anyone that comes by the house many a day of the week, either coming to the door or catching a glimpse through the kitchen window, might catch sight of Jake in silly boxers and a pirate hat, humming under his breath as he works on various projects that including brewing things on the stove, and doing his damnedest to get dust from moths without losing his memory in the process.