Somewhat racist Frosty the Dragon Coal Stoker meets one of the co-owners of a In-Betweener eating and drinking establishment.A oinking little porker
The original Work which dates to March 2013 puts forth the position that somewheres to the northwest of the main setting,across the Big Ocean,lay the super-continent of Grimmsland.Grimmsland was populated with fairytale,fable,nursery rhyme and mythical citizens.
When the asteroid Great Green Serpent impacted with Earth 66 million years before present it did so on Grimmsland.The Grimmslanders thus became refugees and set up resettlement camps around the ports that the landsailor vessels docked at.
Ancient dinosaurian Earth is in shake rattle and roll mode and everyone is having a tougher time.
In a intermediary work between the original Work ( 2013) and SINNER MAN ( 2015) we also learn of Piper Polar Bear settlements and surviving dinosaur seamen such as Bronty the Ancient Brontosaurus Mariner.
Frost had downed his glass of Boothe's Finest 68 and was
puffing on a fag,staring at the Laidley Worm's other patrons. The cosmic collision a thousand years earlier had affected peoples the dragons hadn't even been aware existed, With all the upheavals overseas some of those landless refugees had hitched rides on land sailor freighters back to the dragon ports. As usual,the government had fallen over backwards to accommodate the Grimmsland folk,even though the government could barely cope with the needs of its own native dragon citizens. The Grimm's hadn't posed much of a threat to most of the draconic job market,but if you were a merchant or a tavern keeper watch out.The Laidley Worm's owner,a honest hard working in-betweener named Meg,had been forced by the tough times to take in three Grimms as co-partners. The three pig brothers,who had added the signboard “and the Three Little Pigs”,were busy serving to the Laidley's new clientele,fellow Grimms. Frost watched as one of the oinking little porkers waddled up to one of the smaller tables,where a wolfish fellow with a beat up hat sat drinking away his sorrows in a shot glass of '68. Most of the Grimm's wouldn't touch Boothe's feral booze,but this Big Bad Wolf had come in a hour ago wailing about his marriage breakdown with some Grimm lass named Goldilocks. The little pig oinked as he came to the wolf's table and said “ Say,do I know you from somewhere? “ *********************************************************