He finds the chest with his mother's items in it, and just decides to haul the entire thing out. He can sort through it over the winter, especially given he hasn't taken any time before now to really look at any of it.

It's not as large as most cedar chests, but big enough, though despite his demeanor, he has no trouble carrying it out to the wagon.

Spotting Aleja standing there, coming to a stop and slowly lowering the trunk to the ground. He watches a couple going by, eyes narrowing as he watches them with the closest thing to a challenge anyone in town has ever seen from him.

"What did they say to you?"

Still staring at them, though it's obviously not the townsfolk he's speaking of.