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Now how did time fly like that? He’d expected to be gone for at most a couple of hours. Talking with the delivery courier had taken longer than he’d anticipated, and that wasn’t including the original reason he’d left the shop, and his project. As he long-strided it down the street, he could see the two figures outside the shop. Didn’t look like they were up to trouble, so he greeted the two with a friendly grin, jaws parted in a wolfish pant of a smile. “Sorry to ‘ave left y’hangin’. Business uppit the castle.”

His dialect shifted to a casual, drawling tone, he shifted the box of pearls into one arm and slipped one claw into the key hole, giving the digit a deft twist and pushed the door open, ducking inside to admit his tall height. “C’mon in, and welcome t’ Trinkets ‘n Treasure. I’ll just get these squared away while y’look around. Any question’s, y’can ask me all y’like.” He winked one rich gold eye cheerfully at the girl, nodding to the wolf and stepped around the counter with his box, tail swaying behind him as he ducked around the curtain and climbed the stairs. He set the box in his room, Shifted down to his human form, and pulled on breeches, boots, and a loose white shirt, dropping a tunic over top. Chest revealing, but not in an overbearing way.

He pulled his long raven black hair out of the shirt, tied it back into a loose pony tail and returned to the front room of the shop, leaning on the counter as Maelstrom butted his way into the shop, the dire wolf's mismatched blue and violet eyes surveying the two customers before he flopped beside the counter, out of the way, but present. Kanixillo, meanwhile, watched the customers as well, tanned face cheerful and curious. Both were unfamiliar, and the wolf was definitely not from around here. He smelled of travel, the sea, and a foreign land. "So, where'ya from, and where'ya headed?" And was that Titan he was smelling from the woman? My my.