Now the girl decided that she needed more for the rope than just her hair. It was still too thin and she worried for it. So, she took all of the money she had saved all year, and went to the fair to find just the right threads to weave into the rope. She searched all over. Now in the fair there are gypsies, the Roma, wain riders from Charlemagne's time who have lived in their wagons.
Every fair has a few gypsies.
There are also others who travel in wagons, or wains, or trailers and who are found in the fair, and they sell almost everything from their traveling booths. Now the Ki-Rin are magical creatures whose magical mountain is about the same place in the magical world as the eastern Himalayas are in our world. They also have armored scales on their bodies, twice the size of a large silver dollar and a single horn twisting from their foreheads. They range from their mountain eastward, all the way to the ocean east of Japan, and sometimes to other places, stalking down certain types of evil and rewarding innocent good. On the high mountains the Oreads collect their strands of hair which sears evil on the touch and which can trap or bind magic power.