And depressing as fuck. Uplifted animals, one of them is literally the last of a breeding pair of mushroom-faced goats, coming to full consciousness and sentience only to lose his partner, and is now traumatically depressed.
The second is a giant jungle bird, kinda cassowary style, that barely grasps the idea of death, but otherwise tries to help, and says shit like WARK all the time, and I LOVE him.
The third is a big-brained fish who kinda runs the direct operations. Huffy british asshole.
They're all great.
Oh my FUCKING GOD, Tagfer, I'm going to SOB UGLY-STYLE
When you approach vendors, they have barks that can sometimes be little lore dumps, so it's worth listening before hitting the menu.
Tagfer? The one that lost his mate? Just sobs, after a while.
BUT THIS TIME?
HE DID A MATING CALL (said so in the subtitles) AND THEN LOOKED SAD WHEN THERE WAS NO RESPONSE.
I WILL FIND A WAY TO HELP YOU TAGFER, I SWEAR IT
(but it won't save your species - a single breeding pair does not a recoverable species make, unless you've got some weird stuff goin' on with your genetics and such.)