Greta, the man has literally never seen a bear before. Bears are exciting!

Bringing up Booth is usually a good way to completely sidetrack the Balladeer now. "He's always like that," he says contemptuously, "but the others weren't. Not always. Most of them will usually tolerate me being around, even if they're not friendly. But...I got in a fight with them, right before the Rift took me. It was..."

He falls silent for a second, grimacing. "...it was worse than usual."