Merchant Meets the Wide Wolf: a Dogged Contender by MeatPedal on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Holo was reaching the limits of her patience.

As if it wasn't bad enough to fare on portioned meals after their inconveniently hasty retreat from Pazzio, she was now forced to travel while tolerating the company of a shepherdess.

And if that wasn't insult enough to injury, the blonde girl naturally came with a canine companion of her own.

'The fool truly lives up to his status.'

Yet the wise wolf couldn't hold it against him for too long. Certainly there was no man that wasn't beguiled by the witless fluttering of a maid's lashes.

Nay, what Holo was concerned with was the mutt scrutinizing her even now… and moreover its adamant calm that spoke not of begging but of demand. Were the sheep dog to speak in human tongue, it would surely threaten to reveal Holo's true nature 'lest it receive her share of delicious dried meat.

'Wait... was the mutt calling her fat!?'

Lawrence had better be prepared to compensate her for this humiliation... or alternatively bear the guilt of knowing where a couple of the shepherdess' sheep disappeared to.

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The delay was a lot longer than I had hoped, but with any luck it should be the longest one there'll be.