On the plane, Araari brings up being incompetently threatened. “Two men stopped me yesterday. From Captain Walker. They wanted me to tell you that continuing on this path is dangerous. —They meant because of them, because they will hurt you if you continue, but I suspect they are not the most dangerous thing we will encounter if we continue.”
Anita probably has a better sense than Zoe about how skittish drug dealers are about people bringing photo taking monkeys to drug deals.
"Pretty tame? I'm not as good at handling him as ... my friend was. But he behaves."
Where behaves means "sometimes runs off to break into cult territory and take pictures of important cult artifacts."
Which Zoe thinks totally counts as behaving.
"I guess we can probably just explain him away however you usually explain him? ...why do we have a monkey with us for this, though."
"I promised to look after him. No one else was gonna and we can't just leave him on his own."
"He just doesn't like to listen to me as much. Which I don't blame him for, given his recent loss."
"Okay! Good. Then, just, you know, uh - I guess try to keep him from doing anything crazy."
"I think I can manage that."
Zoe actually is not entirely sure she can manage that but he doesn't actually try to do anything crazy all that often so it's probably fine?
To the nightclub! ...If Zoe is charming people and Anita is fast talking them perhaps Oswald should have the monkey, for less immediate distraction.
His animal handling isn't great but perhaps Zoe can do the actual handling and Oswald can be very unalarming.
Just two lovely ladies looking for a good night out on the town. With their friend the awkward fellow with the monkey.
The awkward fellow who is trying to come off as the grim silent type with a monkey, excuse.
"Oh, sure," a man says. "Now, other people will tell you to buy your Nectar from the parkies. They are at the parks throughout Valletta-- near La Gavroches in Upper Barracca, in the Argotti Gardens, you can't miss them. But I'm telling you they overcharge, and you really want to get your Nectar from the Faldetta Peaches.
"Girls. They walk the street just going about their normal business and you can buy from them when you see them. You can tell them by the peach-colored lining on their faldetta."