Tip Shops. Everything from from over-ordered new clothing, 2nd hand furniture, building material and odds and ends. "One person's rubbish is another's treasure." -- Prompty.
Places like this had a Smell. Somewhere between dust, old makeup, and the Stygian depths of an Escherian book emporium. Regardless of whether the items for sale were new or recovered in one way or another, they all had the scent of too much time.
Maebe thought of it as the smell of second-hand dust. It made sense, since everything in the shop had come from places where they weren't wanted. Factory seconds, overstock, offcuts, scraps, and the mandatory second-hand items that only encouraged the Smell. They were all things that had the potential to be useful. Which was why they were in the Second Chance Store.
For Maebe, it was the smell of hir home. The little flat above the shop was where ze grew up, and working the store was as almost a reflex. Sometimes, ze would take up things that had lain around too long and turn them into something new. Pour encourager les autres.
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