Shoeman



Shoeman has a private entrance into the Castle; everyone else has to use the main entrance near Doorman. But Shoeman needs the main entrance and Doorman for something: He gets big boxes of shoes delivered from China and puts them in the lobby for Doorman to guard until he is ready to bring them away. Shoeman sells the shoes at night markets, we heard. He uses the Castle as his warehouse and parks a little flatbed truck in the basement garage for when he wants to drive the shoes away. It is a good thing he is the only one using our lobby for storage and there would be no way to get into the Castle if everyone left as many boxes there as he does. Remarkably, all the elves and ogres in the Castle on Waterview Street do things their own way without thinking about what if everyone did what they did. In that way, The Castle seems to get along just fine. 

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