The Very Important Debate of Ten Thousand opens with stirring rhetoric. “Us good,” says Grung, before pointing keenly to a hill where Thag maybe saw somebody he didn’t know once. “Them bad!”

His opponent Hoog chuckles. “Well, us good,” he agrees, then jerks a thumb Grungward. “But them not good.”

Grung’s brows climb nearly above his ears. “Them good?” he asks in disbelief, pointing again.

“Us good,” Hoog clarifies.

“Them bad!” cries Grung.

“Us good, them bad,” explains Hoog quickly. “Them bad; conversely, us good.”

“Us bad?”

“Us good!”

Then a tyrannosaur eats all of them. Shut up, it could too.