Welcome to Legends of Aventris. I'm Booker and you're listening to Uprooted. Here's what happened last time.

We just shown up. We know there's going to be public executions tomorrow. We're going to be careful.

Maybe if you can get close to the vice, Roy, you can convince them not to off all those poor credits.

Let's maybe just have like a little rest.

We'll die just a little.

Maybe we should explore town a bit and see what we can find out about those prisoners.

I think we can kill a bear.

I mean, we're really good at killing stuff.

I think everybody thinks that something unknown and scary is a monster,

but maybe it's just not really.

Maybe it's just a misunderstood.

I don't want to alarm anyone.

I see people in the trees.

Dark shaggy brown fur.

This is a big pile of rotting something, of almost a rotting smudge of some kind.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, you didn't answer if you can understand me.

You compel him and you suggest that he eats grass.

He just looks at you very dopily, and he smiles and he says,

I love vegetables.

Something that had been causing some sort of rage has subsided.

What's your name?

My name's Benji.

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