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.

The pocket watch is VERY BIG and the mouth has NOT QUITE CHOKED IT DOWN.

..................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.

The mouth, choking on the camera, allows Magnificence to extract his prize.

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.

OH NO

There's a nasty bite on his ankle. He's bleeding pretty badly.

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.

Unfortunately, his paws shake.

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.

Meanwhile--

Hmmm. So the thing one ideally wants to do is make contact with Dr. Salazzio? But it's super weird to just barge into a doctor's office. She's not even sure that he spends much time in any sort of proper office, he could be a normal doctor who sees patients for most of the day. What she needs is, like... a secretary. Yeah. A secretary to make an appointment with him at his soonest possible convenience.

She can head to the hospital, try to avoid any nurses that she actually spoke to yesterday, and ask whether there's a place to go to discuss scheduling meetings with specific doctors.

There's a receptionist in the front hall.

"Hello. I'm here representing a Dr. William Conrad. Word is that there are particularly interesting developments in medicine occurring at this hospital, and I'm here to see whether it's worth him flying out to learn more about them. Do you know if it's at all possible to schedule a meeting with a Dr. Salazzio to discuss his work?"

"Does Dr. Solazzio know you're coming?"

"He does not, I only recently learned that he was the man behind the developments I'd been sent to learn about. I'm fine sending a letter first, if that'd be more proper, but I figured that since I was already here - might as well ask directly, you know?"

The receptionist looks at her very suspiciously. "...Well, it could be arranged," she says. "But if you want me to help you, you're going to have to help me..."

"Of course, I am always happy to compensate people for going above and beyond."

Internal sigh.

The receptionist continues to smile and nod until Anita has handed over several crisp ten-lira bills.

Then she says, "Dr. Solazzio has an opening this afternoon."

"Thank you very much! What time exactly?"

"1pm."