Gretch-a-sketch (old)

surly \SUR-lee\, adjective: 1. Ill-humored; churlish in manner or mood; sullen and gruff. 2. Menacing or threatening in appearance, as of weather conditions; ominous.

The mercenary's manner had been surly, but he would be a useful resource to have when passing through the skeevy coastal town of Iveran.

And because I missed yesterday, here's what I had planned. It's best read in the voice of Jim Dale.

deracinate \dee-RAS-uh-nayt\, transitive verb: 1. To pluck up by the roots; to uproot. 2. To displace from one's native or accustomed environment.

Narrator, Pushing Daisies: Just as Chuck was deracinated from her aunt's home in Couer d'Couer, Digby dug up the flower garden with an appropriately dogmatic force. Two feet below was a hand and two feet lower was the body destined to be the pie maker-turned-detective's next case.