I'm glad to see you back, and that you enjoyed reading this. It wasn't easy writing the bit with Jack and friends, because on the one hand, every person wants to have "peeps" to call their own and interact with, and not have to lose them all every few decades; on the other, Jack IS largely a loner it seems, so who's to say he couldn't get by just fine on his own for a thousand years or more? (Well, I guess I am, since I wrote the story. LOL)

And Will may not want to devote his life to ironwork, but he's good enough that I think he'd want to keep up with the artistic, cathartic side of it. After seeing all that death, it makes sense he'd want to create something once in a while to sort of counter it.