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.”
They are watching to make sure people don't enter the building.
There's a big gravel area nearby, with some cars on it.
Are there places where a monkey might SNEAK BY without the men with guns noticing. Possibly from somewhere they would not expect. Like the roof, if it's possible to climb up to the roof from anywhere else.
AHA. He will TRY THIS and then see whether there are any ways INSIDE that might not be IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS from other vantage points.
He cuts across the gravel yard because it is LESS LIKELY TO BE SEEN BY MEN WITH GUNS, who are very carefully only walking on the paths.
As he crosses, he feels something grabbing at his foot. He sees that he's knocked aside some gravel and disturbed a mouth, flecked with dirt. It looks almost human, almost normal.
WHAT IS THAT. THAT'S NOT HOW MOUTHS GO.
okay okay this is a WEIRD THING. when he runs into weird things he should take a PICTURE.
he will TAKE A PICTURE OF THE MOUTH.
He clumsily drops his camera into the mouth. It chomps it and then, apparently unhappy about the taste of this meal, SCREAMS
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Magnificence RUNS VERY FAST
(no no no the camera the camera that anemone got him)
everything is TERRIBLE the mouth ATE HIS CAMERA
AWFUL
When magnificence is a safe distance away he will look back and check whether the camera is really definitely swallowed whole or maybe the scary mouth is not very deep and is just kind of biting it or something????
a NORMAL mouth could not swallow a camera whole probably.
..................has anybody noticed the screaming mouth. probably everybody has but he will Look.
The guards are standing at the VERY EDGE of the path and looking.
They saw a monkey and concluded this was not problematic.
HM.
Magnificence is going to take a WILD RISK HERE and attempt to go back and SAVE HIS WATCH because FUCK THAT WEIRD MOUTH THING THAT BELONGS TO HIM.
This might be what one would technically refer to as "a terrible idea" but.
HAHA SUCK IT HORRIBLE MOUTH THING
WOO
Now his only problem is that he has probably attracted the attention of EVERY SINGLE MAN WITH A GUN. WHOOPS.
They are all, fortunately, prepared to TOTALLY IGNORE THE MONKEY.
Why is there a monkey on Malta? They don't know.
But they are paid to guard this warehouse from human beings.
Magnificence is unaware of this thought process so he is going to SCAMPER BACK ONTO THE ROOF WHERE MAYBE IT WILL BE HARDER TO SEE HIM.
A mouth bites at his foot.
When the mouth bites him, Magnificence gets a vision.
Somewhere below the earth, there's a Major Mouth, thirty feet wide, churning, gushing, gurgling, oozing Nectar.
D:
Well this is BAD.
AUGH he doesn't know how to FIX bleeding.
MAYBE he should run away and limp back home and try to get help.
BUT FIRST he is gonna try to take an aerial picture of the STUPID HORRIBLE MOUTH ZONE, from a SAFE DISTANCE, while holding his camera VERY VERY CAREFULLY.
because he's NOT LETTING THE STUPID MOUTHS WIN.
He may not actually be able to get the mouths onto a picture but hey he tried.
Now he is going to LIMP BACK TO THE HOTEL and HOPE ARAARI OR ZOE IS THERE.