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Sometimes Jak would visit dead town, though really he was revisiting the Sandover village from his childhood in his mind. He would make his way up to Samos's hut, usually alone since Daxter didn't seem to understand these visits, as if he had forgotten all about his home town. But Jak remembered, and he wanted to keep hold of the memory. Even though he knew that he couldn't return, he still wished for the days when the fresh ocean breeze had brushed across his face and the biggest worries in the world were a couple of lurker crabs down on sentinel beach. Back when life was simple, with no responsibilities.
He would sit in the middle of Samos's hut and look out through the doorway, imagining the small village spread out in front of him just across a small wooden bridge. The fisherman's house with fishing gear stacked up against the walls, the mayor's house with the ecowheel that supplied the village with power, his uncle's house…
He shook that thought from his head. He couldn't handle that fact now, and probably he never would. Even though he knew now that the old explorer had no blood relation to him, he had still meant a lot to the young boy with the adventurous spirit…
He turned his mind back to the hut he was in, or even, the one he had been in so many times. He remembered when he and Daxter would rock up to annoy old Samos when they had nothing better to do. He remembered when Daxter used to poke the giant venus flytrap in the corner of the room until it nearly bit his finger off. He remembered them snatching some of old greenies eco equipment and being chased around and around the room by the floating sage while knocking nearly every other thing over. Jak gave a tiny smile to the thought.
These short visits comforted Jak and helped to calm him. Even if the village was gone, and the people in it, it was still all kept safe in his memories. And he held on tightly to those memories. Because after all, underneath that tough, angry, take on anything exterior, he was just a scared boy so very far from home.