Ah yes this seems like the thing that he is WATCHING FOR.

Perhaps he should wait until she's not paying attention and then STEAL A SUBSTANCE.

...

The substance is DIFFICULT TO SECURE.

"No," the peach says, "NOT FOR MONKEYS. Isn't he cute though? I think I'm going to name him Hope."

He is very cute. It's true.

He is not going to have a new name though. He's going to run away when they leave the hospital.

Bye nice lady! It's been fun.

Magnificence has discovered the SOURCE of the SUBSTANCE. Now if he can only think of some way to communicate this. These humans are much worse at understanding things than Anemone was.

...Yeah, Araari has no idea how to communicate with this monkey. Zoë seemed better at it but Zoë is also at the library right now. “What do you want to tell me?”

HOW IS HE SUPPOSED TO WORK WITH THAT.

He takes a sheet from the bed and wraps himself up so that he looks like the lady in the hood???

Okay, so he is trying to communicate something, not just complaining because he’s hungry or whatever monkeys do... “Did you take any pictures?” Araari tries to take his camera to check.

Magnificence DID take a picture but if she opens the camera up to check without being ready to make them good then it will make the picture BAD. Anemone was very clear about this.

Probably all humans know how pictures work though???? Okay sure she can have the camera.

Araari will take the pictures to be developed and will not do things that make the picture bad.

GOOD.

Magnificence has taken a picture of an unidentifiable piece of carpet.

DARN.

OKAY BUT HE TOTALLY KNOWS WHERE HE WAS WHEN HE TOOK IT.

“Can you—show me where this is?”

YES. He can go out of the hotel and lead her to the hospital!

"The woman you were following, she led you here?"

NOD.

Huh. Okay. “Did she get hurt?”

HEADSHAKE.

Well, she still might have been sick in some way that is not obvious to a monkey, but hospitals do have stores of drugs. “Did she take anything from here?”

NOD.

“Thank you very much, Magnificence, you’re very helpful and an excellent monkey.” She picks up his hand and bends down very seriously to kiss it, like she might with an elder or someone else respected. “Are there other important things that you want to tell me, should I keep asking questions?”

NOD! Also Araari is okay. Magnificence approves.

Like he doesn't know that many things but he is PRETTY SURE that she picked up the SUBSTANCE here.

Which seems IMPORTANT.

“Was there anything else important that happened? Is it okay with you if we go back to the hotel room for more questions?”

NOD.

“—Before we go back to the hotel room, if there was anywhere else where something important happened, you should take me there, too.”

HEADSHAKE.