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proposition can Wolfies offer? Will they take Sovereigns? I know that reticently, some Pennite innkeepers and shopkeepers will take Wolfland Sovereigns. However, I know that the sheep farmers and livestock traders are suspicious of anything foreign. The Pennites use Crowns, the YorkCrown. And it’s worth a lot less than a Sovereign. To them one Crown is a large amount of money. Day to day commerce is done with pennies, and they are so low in value that we don’t keep YorkPennies in stock in Wolfland. I have a few Crowns. But because there aren’t a lot of coins in circulation it makes it difficult for us to amass their currency.”
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To a Wolfie, the trappers Erik and OtherErik look identical. Maybe a Pennite can tell them apart. Clearly they cannot be twins, nor even brothers as they have the same name. However, all the Pennites tend to look the same, perhaps their lifestyles do this to them. Every trapper looks exactly like every other trapper. Every farmer like every other farmer. Every innkeeper like every other innkeeper!
Apart from the bit obscured by their bushy beards Erik and OtherErik have dark suntanned skin which is cracked with the texture of a dry river bed. Their deep set, brown eyes peer out beneath voluminous eye brows, and the eyes have a piercing quality which says, “nothing escapes my attention”. Sticky out ears, larger than average, emerge clearly from long straggly, matted hair, and indicate that their hearing is acutely tuned to pick up even minor sounds.
Wearing old, rough, grubby wolfskins, they look a bigger mess than Benet, and their body odour is worse than MaxChaos has ever been! On both counts, that’s a truly remarkable achievement.
Although these days MaxChaos does seem to be a bit more presentable. His clothes are cleaner, his conduct is gentler, and
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