The morning following the Covention you go through a quick crash course about the Boiling Isles with Eda, King occasionally makes a few comments from his position from around the back of your neck. With her help, you go through the brochures of the main nine covens that you had visited the previous day. Using something called Penstagram on her 'scroll' she shows you pictures of the current coven heads, including the Golden Guard and the Emperor himself, Belos.
In all honesty, the only one you give more than a single glance at is the Beast Keeper Eberwolf, and that was because they reminded you of a cat. Eda warned you to stay away from the Plant Head, Snapdragon, due to some... disturbing rumors floating around in the BI underground.
From there you learn the basics that you need to survive here on the Isles. You quickly learn that while the BI does have a calendar set up, it is nothing like the human realm's. First, there were only ten months, with 366 days in a year. Second, the days within the months were staggered so for two months you would have months with 40 days, and the month following would have 42, before repeating. When you ask about the current date, Eda thinks for a moment before consulting her Scroll before telling you it is currently the 39 of Glaw.
You ask if the scroll has a digital calendar on it, and when she confirms that, you ask if it would be possible for the two of you to calculate your birthday according to the Isles' calendar. After a few minutes of concentration and muffled curses, you figure that your birthday, October 10 is now Hacktober 39, which makes your lips twitch with amusement, making your new birthdate three months away. With a grin, you ask about the names of the other months and Eda does not disappoint. Blesist, Scaburary, First-Till, Glaw, Fopilt, Plaixis, Hacktober, Varimn, and Dismember in that order.
You write down the names, which Eda snorts at but doesn't do much more. Then you question her about seasons. Konoha, being located within the Land of Fire, rarely if ever experienced Autumn or Winter, and snow was rare outside of the former Land of Snow, the mountains of Lightning, or the northern parts of the Land of Iron (and in your previous lives, you had either lived in the midwest or on the east coast of the US or England.). To your surprise, the Boiling Isles does have four seasons but when you hear the names of said seasons your surprise diminishes quite quickly. Here they have Green Wake, Sun Surge, which is roughly two (BI) weeks away, Harvest Tide, and Knife Season. You learn that during their 'Winter' months instead of nice fluffy snow they have to deal with falling icicles instead, most being between 6 to 12 inches long hence the name through Eda does claim that at one point in her youth, she was almost skewered by one over four feet long.
Then as you write a few things to remember later you remember that you had bought some seeds several days ago, back in the human realm. Without much thought, you lightly bite your lip as you try to think of where you could or would plant these things without the boiling rain getting to them. Then it hits you, during your second life you faced the issue of growing crops out of sight, and eventually, you figured out how to rig up an underground greenhouse so to speak. Using some refurbished solar panels, heat lamps, make-do sprinklers, and batteries you had managed to set up a small garden under your main base to supplement your meals.
You eventually ask Eda if the old tower just behind the house carries any significant meaning. You just manage to catch her wince slightly at your question and try to back track but she waves you off before you can get more than two words out. She tells you that the tower had once been the only thing that was on this piece of land. She had met Hooty when she was nineteen and by the time she was twenty, the two of them had managed to build what you now know as the Owl House.
You ask her if it would be possible for you to give it a basement, to which she raises an eyebrow at. You sheepishly shrug your shoulders and admit that you were hoping to turn the resulting basement into your personal hobby room rather than take up room in the house's basement. When she asks what hobbies you answer truthfully, music, woodworking, gardening, and maybe some metal work in the far future. She agrees on the condition that you didn't spend all your time down there, and you readily agree.
After a small lunch, you head out to the tower with Hooty talking your ear off until you can slip into the tower and carefully shoo him away. The first thing you do is check the structure supports, since if this were to fall all was for naught. Thankfully, you find little problems with the structure, the only things that catch your attention are the slightly broken parapets at the very top of the tower, and one of the support structures needs reinforcing which you carefully reinforce with a few pieces of wood that Hooty hands to you after you ask him for something to do so.
After that is taken care of you start scanning the ground floor looking for loose boards or boards that would neatly hide a trapdoor without much cosmetic detailing. After you find the 'perfect' spot you carefully pry up the floorboards using a kunai, making sure that you don't accidentally snap any of the more worn-down boards as you do so. As each board is set aside you make sure they are placed exactly how they were when they were flushed with the dirt.
From there you start to dig. Or at least what you do could be considered digging if you tilt your head, squint your eyes, and stare at it for a minute. You aren't the most proficient with Earth Jutsu, and the Jutsu you use could be considered the bastard child of three different Jutsus. But using this technique you quickly have a corridor of sorts, roughly 50 ft by 20 ft across by 10 ft tall, under the tower. Once you have the main shape carved out you summon a few shadow clones to help expand the space even more.
By the time you hear Eda calling for you for dinner, the clones have managed to expand the space to 60 ft by 40 ft. As you pull yourself out of the cavern you have somehow managed to create under the tower in less than six hours, all but two clones dismiss themselves and the two remaining ones start the sealing process around the cavern. Reinforcement seals are liberally slapped on the support beams holding up the ceiling, noise-canceling seals are placed along the walls, and then they start the research process behind a possible new seal, this one falling under a slightly more dangerous category, the Space-Time Seals.
Very rarely do Seal Masters attempt Space-Time Seals and there is a good reason for that. Your birth father is the only one you know of outside of the Uzumaki clan that had succeeded in creating a Space-Time Seal in the last century, and even then, you had your doubts about whether or not your mother helped at all during the creation process. With that being said, you were mostly hoping to create a seal that could theoretically change the way time moved within the sealed area. IE if an hour passed out here anywhere between two to twelve hours passed within the sealed parameter. You aren't expecting a miracle right off the bat but you figure the sooner you start this project the more possibilities you (and your clones) could make.
During dinner, you and Eda talk about the different cuisines that could be found all across the Boiling Isles. As you do, you ask if she has any cookbooks or recipes that you could attempt. It's been a while since you had a decent kitchen to work with, and despite everything, your first life as a baker continues to influence your proceeding lives. (At least you don't have to worry about setting a house on fire or getting food poisoning.) To your joy, Eda pulls out a well-used cookbook filled with loose papers that have written down recipes on them. You look through them, and several things stick out to you.
First, the witches seem to use something called Bone Meal instead of Flour, which reminds you of your old Skyrim addiction, which prompts you for clarification from Eda. Thankfully Bone Meal is the name of the powder that derives from milling Bone Stalks, a growable plant that looks similar to bamboo except that it grows almost pure white. Secondly while looking through the book you find a page depicting a 'Fairy Pie' and after reading it you're both interested and disgusted at the idea of a savory pie, since 3/5 lives you've been American, and the fact that the 'filling' contains live fairies, which you find slight inhumane. The final thing that catches your attention is that a few of the loose-leaf papers have a different handwriting on them that makes Eda gaze upon them with a look of fond recollection before going over them with you.
The rest of the night you and Eda go through potential dinner plans as King spends time in the living room with his stuffies going through a 'campaign.' You join King eventually and lead a counterattack using some of the stuffies that had been 'killed' saying that they had planned this to lure him into a false sense of security. The two of you spend almost an hour tossing stuffies back and forth as Eda watches from the couch, a mug of warmed Apple Blood in hand.