Waxes for sealing clay pots for food and for finery; waxes for documents, candles and death-masks; with colours and perfumes, raw and fine resin; wax to make luxurious seed hives; doll’s heads, wax for the carvers, the cloth dyers; the bronze-smith; and the cheesemaker. The only wax he would not sell was the blackened wax, used for effigies and unsavoury magic. He did not like the customers this brought in.
His wax was in high demand and his business was so strong that he worked night and day, and some.
His small son, Alberto, would watch him as he busily laboured; and when his papa had his back turned, he would hurl small objects into the melt pot and watch them sink, or put them on sticks and coat them like candied apples.
- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances
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