01.02: where only your thoughts have been

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WHO: Ben Hargreeves
WHERE: Both villages, as marked below
WHEN: Nebulously early to mid May, after the siege is over
OPEN TO: OTA
WARNINGS: Will be included as relevant

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It takes nearly three days for Ben to emerge from the house and start exploring. That's how long
it takes him to get used to things like sensations, eating, sleeping, all the mundane things that make up being alive.

He explores the North Village carefully, going to the converted barn and nosing about the other communal buildings. He's nearly always within line of sight of one of his brothers, both for his comfort and theirs, after he forgot he wasn't intangible and tried to stick his hand in the fire.

When he goes to the South Village, it's with Diego and Klaus (it's with Diego and they make Klaus come because he can't be trusted unsupervised for more than five minutes). Ben's on the quest for hoodies from the storage in the South Inn and then he discovers there's a Library and moving him from there is going to be a task for the ages, because there's books. New books he has never read. And even if it's not fiction, Ben is happiest when he has a space to curl up in and a stack of books next to him.