Perhaps more so now than I was, at the rate I'm going. I'd certainly never tended animals before coming here.

[As he says humorously in turn, but he also no longer finds the necessity of their self-sufficiency as depressing as he used to. If anything, he's continually impressed by the progress other residents make, patchwork as it may have to be. Jeremiah won't be the first person to admit he's acclimating after all, but he can see it happening within himself, towards the better things people are bringing forth.

So of course, his face lights up with new interest.] The ocean, then? That's an excellent idea, considering how little it's been tapped for information.