Grug paused at the door, his deep-set grey eyes intently searching the nooks and crannies for any sign of Banou and the cameraman. The coast was clear, the room empty.

He stealthily crept across the room on silent feet. Coming to Banou's chair, he reached into his snack pocket and palmed two large beetle-berries. He carefully arranged the hard, crunchy insectoids in the chair before quickly creeping out of the room.

[This is your host, Banou Tzimitzkes, here again with Grug Quicktalker of Bouldercorp. We are live from our---!!!]

Banou jumps up from her chair, shrieking shrilly, while holding her posterior. In his chair, Grug is holding his sides, laughing so hard that he almost falls out of the chair. After he regained a vestige of his composure, Grug went to Banou's side and gently removed the prickly insects.

"Grug sorry. That first office prank, a classic. Beetle berry on chair, real crowd-pleaser. Please don't hold against Grug."

[Apology accepted. For now. Why do you call it a berry though, isn't that just an insect?]

Grug looked at her incredulously, bushy eyebrow arched.

"Modern people not know? Beetle grow from pile of dead sour berry. So Beetle is berry, is logic."

[O-okay then, moving on to our topic for today. So you had an employee and a business in geodes and jewelry making. What happened next?]

"Grug business was good, Grug even got enough hunt and shiny along with Mug help to move into small cave of own in Little Big Rock, where trap makers live. Grug and Mug life was good for 40 or 50 suns, until Grug ran into big problem. All Big Rock cavewomen with extra hunt had only-shiny on rope. For while, Grug pantry held up, and things still okay. Then Mug told Grug she need go to forest, collect mushroom for hot rock, no hunt left.

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So Grug went to Big River and found Thinking Rock again."

[Thinking Rock?]

"Ancient place to tribe, nice pillowy smooth top, outcrop with elbow cup for propping chin for think. Good spots to rest feet in water. So Grug thunk to himself for a hand or two of sun.

Then Grug had thought. Grug back hurt sometime when he lay on rock bed, but not when he sit on thinking rock on his hide wrap to keep stone clean. So Grug went to Rockert and Trungle, the old hide washers, ask for old hides with tears, too small shrunk hides they throw away.

After that, Mugberta and Grug sat and made shiny-only size small rope."

[Why would you need that, Grug?]

"Grug make pointy round rock, punch hole in hide, then put rope through hole. Then Grug attached few hides together in bag shape, filled bag with shrunk bad hides and river plant like this one."

Grug reached into his now eponymous bag, this one a quite modern, patent leather black briefcase with embossed golden embroidery of a river in motion on either side, meeting at an engraved gilt metal clasp, and fished out a quite ordinary river reed.

"Reeds saved business. Grug stuffed them in hides and they made really comfortable fill, cost Grug no shiny. Grug had it rough at first, sleep on rock bed only was way of tribe for many cycles of moon and stars. Grug learned from experience, and gave first to old Speaker. Speaker hit Grug first, but only out of habit, no Red-Water from it. Then Grug spread hide pillow on rock bed and gave Speaker uppercut to chin, rang bell, and got Speaker on pillow.

When Speaker woke up, Speaker say loved it, want four just like it. So Grug made them , and his pantry was again full of hunt and gather. Mug negotiate deal with cave painters for sit-pillows and stand pillow, was so proud I made eye-water and we tumbled rocks until they smooth. Grug still has copy of that deal, want to see?"

[Sure, Grug.]

Grug removed a more rounded, thinner tablet from his briefcase, and on closer inspection , the word Grumug can be discerned on one side, above a scratched picture of a rounded rectangle. On the other, a painted likeness of an antelope in four pieces below the word Arguysnink.

"You keep that too, make for good visual for market team." Grug parts his wrist hair for a moment before locating his watch. "Look at time, Grug has tablet signing appointment with Rock and Branch tabletsellers today. Grug must go or Grug be late."

[Well, I guess that's all for today, folks! This has been Banou of Channel Big Rock, reporting live, interviewing the CEO of Bouldercorp, Grug Quicktalker. Signing off!]