That was good to read!
I would have suggested a bit of love for the box (but looks like that's what he(?) got now) ...just imagining if I was moved from basement to storage room I would maybe not feel that welcome. (Especially if I was once, maybe traveling with caravans of camels through the Sahara, caring some mysterious treasures😊)
Like anything, if you don't look after it it decays. Or maybe forgets it's own story and needs to be reminded of?
(anyways, the struggles of moving, traveling and wanting to own beautiful, mysterious, big things is hard, I agree)
I am wondering now if it is actually the smell of a camel that comes from the box.
Aha!! Not sure how a camel smells...
...might depend on which part of it?