#so Hi silly faced Jaromir 🥰

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They fished, chopped wood. They secured the last of the goods from the waves.

The little writing-desk from the surgeon's quarters was so heavy they barely got it ashore, and then it disappointed again. While they hoped to find books in it, or medicin, or stationery, all of the drawers and cabinets were empty, some were even missing.

The big chests which Remi recognized being from manufacturer Leighton & Sons were another disappointment. Tightly secured with iron and locks, they couldn't be opened and these too, were too heavy to move. Still, Remi and Lorck ran along with Moize to the far end of the waterfront to collect boulders that would prevent the chests being taken back to sea at high tide.

And it was fun to speculate with the children about their contents. Remi pointed out to them that the chests were locked like that for a reason, that they probably held new machinery or new inventions, and that sparked their imagination so greatly, they couldn't stop talking about it.

"A machine that makes toys!" Moize shouted. "Or a machine that makes parts of toys," Hannah suggested. "Yeah! You put a block of wood in it, and out comes a wooden soldier! But only his legs! On leg after another! Millions and millions of them!"

Laughing they went on, until the sun went down, until Jaromir and Lorck came back with a stone suitable to light their first campfire on.

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