{"id":1955,"date":"2026-10-13T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2026-10-01T04:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:20:14","slug":"chapter-34-sovereigns-and-crowns303","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/13\/chapter-34-sovereigns-and-crowns303\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 34 Sovereigns and Crowns303"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/12\/chapter-34-sovereigns-and-crowns302\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page303 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/14\/chapter-35-marshmallow-time305\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>They stare at the two youngsters. MaxChaos is twenty, NutJob is sixteen. Erik and OtherErik could be in their thirties, or forties, or fifties, it\u2019s hard to tell! Probably younger rather than older, but they look old before their time.<\/p>\n<p>OtherErik looks at NutJob and says, \u201cyou gotta shrewd girl there &#8230; an\u2019 she\u2019s pretty!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MaxChaos quickly steps forward and says, \u201cand she\u2019s spoken for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He raises himself to his full height and broadens his chest, clearly demonstrating his superior size. Everybody can see his arm and shoulder muscles rippling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Commander Crush is married,\u201d he says, forestalling any further discussion on the subject, \u201cso you\u2019re staring down a dead end there!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erik strokes his beard, \u201cyou lot come back \u2018ere tomorruh. We\u2019ll \u2018ave a fink about what we want, and you \u2018ave a fink about what you can offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CandiCrush looks to KristalClear for a signal. Throughout, KristalClear has detected lots of uneasy, positive vibes. Definitely uneasy, and certainly on the better side of indifferent. Raising her eyebrows almost imperceptibly, and mustering an extremely faint smile, it\u2019s enough for CandiCrush to get the message.<\/p>\n<p>She puts ten Sovereigns down on the table. MaxChaos stares. For him that\u2019s more than a month\u2019s wages. CandiCrush, with the sort of blink that says, \u201cI\u2019m surprising even myself right now,\u201d offers a calm, polite smile.<\/p>\n<p>Looking directly at Erik, she narrows her eyes a little, and narrows her mouth, and she says purposefully, \u201cno obligation, this is yours, no strings attached, we\u2019ll be back tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A ten Sovereign inducement should be more than enough to let them know that the Wolfies are serious, and it\u2019ll ensure that the trappers also turn up tomorrow.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/12\/chapter-34-sovereigns-and-crowns302\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page303 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/14\/chapter-35-marshmallow-time305\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page303 \u2013 Next They stare at the two youngsters. MaxChaos is twenty, NutJob is sixteen. Erik and OtherErik could be in their thirties, or forties, or fifties, it\u2019s hard to tell! Probably younger rather than older, but they look old before their time. OtherErik looks at NutJob and says, \u201cyou gotta shrewd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/13\/chapter-34-sovereigns-and-crowns303\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 34 Sovereigns and Crowns303&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}