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While the others had taken their loot and left, HotTea had lingered behind. There were things that he had wanted to explore a bit better, mental maps that he wanted to have stored in his mind. Something throughout the encounter hadn't quite added up. Was it lost? Was it missing? He wasn't sure, but he'd intended to find out.

He found it in the form of the tiniest hatter he had yet to see, the sight of which brought a silly, lopsided grin to his face. He reached down, hoping not to startle it too much as he tilted its hat away from its eyes. "Might be a little bit easier to see where you're going without this thing falling down over your face, don't you think?"

"And you are very small." He stated rather simply in return, grin still solidly in place on his face. "So let's be tall and small together, hm? We'll get our stuff and get out of here before any of the things that we took out decide to respawn... Even if our heights mis-match we've at least got a great sense of style." He gave his coat a light swish, showing off hatter garb the exact same color as hers, if not considerably larger.

"Only with your permission." He held his hand out to her, waiting until she'd taken it before giving her a light tug up into a position that was better to lift her from. He hoisted her up with a groan, making a big deal of fussing as if he were hefting the world up onto his shoulders (joking, obviously to be a jerk... or to try and make less light of her size).

"Mind the hat, Little Bit. I've found a few dangerous things in there and I'd hate for any of them to fall out while we're making our escape."