Even as he read his book, staring intently at the words, Jake's mind wandered far away from wandlore. It didn't matter that this book was hard to read; he'd acquired near enough every book on wandlore that there was.

"The big ship sailed on the Ally Ally-oh, the Ally Ally-oh, the Ally Ally-oh. The big ship sailed on the Ally Ally-oh, on the last day of september..." he sang to himself, trying to keep his voice quiet. If anyone ever found out he had a choir-boy type singing voice, he'd be done for.

It was... actually very odd that he could sing, given his problems and whatnot. But ahh well. Jake continued the song, and kept reading.