“Sometimes he narrates it out loud.”
A Stone ape of The Old World
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Atlas's rock is the troop's easternmost point, and he has sat it every clear morning for nine years. He has seen storms born, troops moving, and once — he swears — a branch move with no wind, high up, at dawn.
His narrations have become the troop's morning news: 'Clouds gathering over the far ridge — rain by midday, I'd say — and the New World troop is already awake, I can hear Rook.' He is usually right.
He is training no successor. 'The rock chooses,' he says. The young ones keep trying the rock. The rock has not chosen.
“Atlas tells it plainly, the way he tells the weather: dawn, the high branches, a branch moving with no wind. He has told it the same way nine times. The tenth time, Nix — who was on watch that night — nodded once, and said nothing, and Atlas has not told it an eleventh time. Some confirmations close a story. This one opened it.”
The branch moved. There was no wind.
The monkeys of Africa and Asia: baboons with opinions, mandrills wearing the sunrise on their faces, macaques who have learned every human trick worth stealing. Old troops, old grudges, older grooming debts.
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