"Thank you, Mr. Aarons," she says, very softly, and does not say any more things.

Two days later--

As a lovely Christmas present, Zoe and Mordred wake up in the morning with a normally operating digestive system.

Let's go... have a really weird Christmas.

Zoe misses snow and presents and gingerbread.

Okay maybe not snow itself but like, looking at snow from inside where it is warm.

It's too bad Anemone is sick over Christmas. She gets so excited about holidays.

Mordred is still kind of exhausted but the weirdest Christmas of his life sounds like as good a plan as any.

Magnificence has been exploring the city. When he comes back Anemone is not where he left her. He thinks about what this means. 

"She's not here, Magnificence. She got sick. Lev took her to a doctor."

Will Magnificence understand her? A Mystery.

Maybe Anemone is at the tent that she left him outside of earlier? He wants to check the tent.

"Magnificence, come back! She's not--! Arrrgh." This monkey.

"What is this MONKEY doing here?"

Hmmmmmmm, a monkey is Not Supposed To Be Here. He can hide, like he's supposed to, until he knows a little more about where Anemone might be. What else is around

Maybe he can steal something when they forget about the monkey. Or take a picture! Anemone likes it when he takes pictures. It's like stealing.

There is a table, with all kinds of interesting papers!

Ooooh!

Humans like papers.

Not far from the tent there is a TUNNEL leading to a PLACE.

Oooooh. MAGNIFICENCE likes PLACES.

Maybe he will check out the place, and then the humans will forget about him and he will be able to get something pretty for Anemone!

He wants to see the PLACE.

It is a VERY GLOOMY PLACE full of STONES.

It's BIG!!

Are there any pretty stones in it?

There ARE.

- oh! oh! this is a weird place! A place in Ethiopia! He should take a PICTURE.

Magnificence Finds A Very Pretty Picture and takes a picture of it. It is some WORDS and around it there is a CIRCLE.

It is a BEAUTIFUL picture.

Anemone will be so proud!

He goes to look for MORE PICTURES TO TAKE.

There is ANOTHER TENT inside the tomb. There are three ladies near the tent.

Ooooh!!

He should be stealthy. Anemone got upset the last time he let people see him while he was exploring a weird place.

He can be very quiet when he wants to be very quiet. He's sure of it.

The ladies are talking to each other.

Magnificence cannot figure out what they are like. He is not a monkey who is very good at humans yet. Magnificence does not think he knows enough of the words to figure out what they are saying.

One of the ladies, the one with paint on her face, makes Magnificence VERY UNHAPPY. Magnificence does not like her at ALL. He should be very very quiet so she does not see him. She is an ENEMY.

The humans are MOSTLY JUST TALKING. They seem very absorbed in what they are doing and it would be easy for a monkey to slip past them.

Hmmmmmmmmm. Magnificence will STEALTHILY SLIP PAST THEM and see what is in the tent.