It was finally time for Ben and Zane to get new anime body pillows to

snuggle up with, so it became necessary to brave the greatest fantasy

adventure setting: the marketplace. The merchants were formal and

entertaining, but their bartering system was too complicated and the church

kept showing up to accuse the Cartoncasters of various sins and

abominations. Buying things was easier back when you just had to make a

sacrifice to the wolf god.