WC: 340. So sorry that I got slow on this. Hope you don't mind the tiny pp near the end? Feel free to pp him assisting Bangle taking off all the crud on his back :>
There was something to be said for the festival and its participants - All were from different worlds, colorful strangers seeking either new entertainment, or a great bargain. Bangle had determined, as he walked Jack towards the stables, that he too would attempt to taste both flavors of the Winter Festival. As he approached one said interesting stranger, he caught the rugged man holding his ear and a needle close to it. The coywolf raised an eyebrow at this in curiosity, but his taller form rose as he spoke a few gruff words, and the Guffawri male pushed it to the back of his mind for the time being.
He pointed out the obvious that decorated the multicolored male, and grinned at his comment, one ear flicking at the one unidentifiable word near the end. One hand still on Jack's halter, Bangle equaled the stranger's grin with a broad one of his own. "Name's Bangle Guffawri, of Cercatori d'Arte, friend," he said in reply, calling him by the same title he would have given anyone else. He noticed briefly, as the male shook the other man's hand, that his handshake was strong and sure.. and would have guessed that the man had been in the business of trade for quite some time.
After Drakien had offered the merchant a hand to unload his own wares, Bangle's train of thought had kept him quiet for a few seconds too long, before he blinked his vivid orange eyes. "Ah, well.. sure, if yer offerin'!" The coywolf pat the black and white horse's neck, who whinnied in reply and tossed his head lightly. "This 'ere's Jack, me mate's horse," the coywolf announced as he stepped backwards and turned his back towards the other male. Pointing a claw behind him, he indicated the bulk of things that he had loaded onto his own back. "Would yeh mind?" The bulk of it nearly towered over the merchant himself, but it wasn't a burden so much as a familiarity of which he hadn't felt in years.
Image courtesy of Phil and Pam@Flickr; table by the Mentors!
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