[private | Hoffman]
...I know it's been a little while, but... I just wanted to know if everything was all right. And thank you.
[ He'd finished cleaning after dinner, but it's as if the boxes called him to peel the tape off the outside and peek in. No one would leave anything out in the open here on purpose, so anyone who passes by probably has to do the decorating. And he's passed by, and works in here anyway, right?
So Thomas is decorating the lower branches of the tree until he can go for a ladder, and taping a red garland to the edges of the tables. He'll start with something simple, in case anyone else wants to come along and help. ]