@ofhumanvoice would swim the moat to be here
“He is a wolf, my lady,” Gwynplaine said pulling the animal back. His scarf wrapped securely around his misshapen mouth. “He barks but does not bite.” He gestured back towards the wagons where the rest of the evening’s entertainment had set up their temporary camp. “My father Ursus tamed him when he was a cub and named him Homo. Homo homini lupus. His own little joke.”
More and more carriages were approaching the castle some from as far away as the island empire of Nihon. The princes of Kieste, Lützelburg, Lotharingia and Kassel were in attendance. While princesses from Ramschied, Longobardia, Breteyne, Lottringe, Stygia and Týskland were just arriving.
Gwynplaine supposed it was like a carnival or market for the wealthy. Where the princes and princesses could be sold at such and such bride price and so and so dowry. Pretending afterwards there were allies when such promises would be forgotten at the earliest convenience.












