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title: 00003 - polish
created: Tue, 22 Jul 2022 20:32:23 -0600
updated: Tue, 22 Jul 2022 20:32:23 -0600
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### 00003


> “SHOE SHINE!” Bellows Tea, with a full bodied laugh! 
> 
> With a well practiced move, faster than one would think giant like Tea could
> move, Tea removes an object from their satchel.
> 
> …at first glance it appears to be a flail without a handle, but is actually a
> spare pair of giant boots, held by their laces. 
> 
> “These could indeed use a good shining.” 
> 
> The boot are spectacularly large, probably a 1/2 size too large, in all honest,
> for even Tea’s feet. 
> 
> The boots have gold eyelets.

Earrings greedily snatches the boots and start washing, drying, and polishing them to a shine. Waistcoat eagerly tugs on Tea's wrist and guides him to the comfy chair, which is decidedly too small for his bulky frame. Teeth graciously offers him a wedge of cheese.

Depending on how observant Tea is, he may or may not notice that the boots are returned to him with 1 - 3 fewer eyelets.

> Bending down, Inky sniffs the bottles carefully, mumbling, "Creosote, shellac,
> hopweed … ou, wild cherry liquorice." Then, a little louder to one of the
> blahoblins, though it came out not much more than a squeak, "Might I ask from
> where did you get these?"

"Shoe Polish! We Make! Roots and ash!" shouts Waistcoat. They seem to only have the one volume.

"Beeswax!" yells Earrings.

"Resin!" cries Teeth.

"SHOE SHIIINE!" they all cry in unison.

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