Spice & Wolf by Volume I

Author:Volume I
Format: epub

the contract he had with Zheren about how many he was obligated to purchase. All he could do now was pray there were no fluctuations in the marketplace. He could then point out Zheren’s lie, and there’d be nothing stopping him from getting his ten silver pieces back. Naturally if the price dropped, he’d be able to regain them legitimately, so losing only a single piece to him felt downright inexpensive. When a merchant let his guard down, normally he lost everything. But here, all Zheren had really done was hurt Lawrence’s pride. He slumped a bit before Holo, who snickered at him out of the comer of her mouth. “Although...” Holo began. Lawrence looked at her beseechingly, as if to say, there’s more? Holo looked back predatorily. “Isn’t it quite common for the silver purity to drop slightly?” Suspecting that his redemption might start with this, Lawrence forced himself to straighten his leaden back. “No, normally the purity is controlled with extreme care.” “Hm. And yet out of nowhere, there’s a deal that hinges on the purity of silver coins. Can that just be chance, I wonder?” “Uh.. The grinning Holo seemed to be enjoying this state of aflairs. No — she was definitely enjoying it. ‘Now, you being in that village, at that time, with that sheaf of wheat — that was chance. There is nothing so hard as discerning chance from late. It’s harder than romance for a shut-in.” “That’s a strange analogy,” was all Lawrence could answer. “You’re lost in the maze of your own thoughts. When that happens, you need a new perspective. When I’m hunting prey, sometimes I’ll climb a tree. The forest looks different from on high. For example” — said Holo the Wisewolf with a crooked grin that bared her left feng — “what if the person who’s planning something isn’t that kid?” “Oh . . Lawrence felt like he’d been struck over the head. “There’s no reason Zheren’s profit had to come from you. For example, perhaps he was hired by somebody else, and those wages motivated him to pull you into the strange deal,” Though she was frilly two heads shorter than him, Holo seemed a giant. “If you’re looking at a single withered tree, it can seem like a grievous wound to the lbrest. But from the forests perspective, that tree’s remains will nourish other plants, acting for the good of the whole forest. If you change your perspective, a situation right in front of you can reverse itself So — have you seen anything new?” For a moment, Lawrence suspected that Holo already knew something, but from her tone it seemed that she was not testing him but rather was genuinely hying to help. Nothing was more important to a merchant than knowledge. But such knowledge was no mere commodity to be priced. The situation before him. His knowledge of that technique. Lawrence thought — thought about it from a different perspective. Zheren, the only man he’d talked

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