Apparently, he did, because Jack just sighed and handed him the key.
I mean, he tolerates my family and my friend for some reason, but Jack's no saint. Any newlywed man would find it annoying to have a bunch of people in his house.
So.
There was something more to it.
But I didn't follow up on that, because I got too distracted by Joe, who asked me a question, and I had to go into a diatribe about some alchemical process handling.
I remained busy burying myself in the work. There was so much to do.
Thankfully, I didn't get many calls for my official job as a rural alchemist, because farm machinery gets used less during the winter after winter crops (or cover crops, depending on what is being grown) were planted.
That was good because I was really, really busy.
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