“The Leaf-Eaters' only sailor, and insufferably proud.”
A River ape of The Leaf-Eaters
3 known connections · an open question
The living story
The story so far
Kano fell in as an infant — accident — and came up laughing. He has been the river's ever since: diving, paddling, retrieving dropped fruit, showing off. The showing off is extensive.
Happening now
Boru wants him to learn the long call. Kano wants to teach Boru the backstroke. Negotiations are ongoing and extremely splashy.
What may come
He once swam a message across during flood season when Sefu's land route was cut. Sefu — graciously, through gritted teeth — admitted it was faster.
“Silt waded where others swung, millions of years before the current river found its course — and the keepers say the river remembers her footprints though the mud is stone now. Dara offers the river's water to travelers; Kano swims it, arguing technique with a portrait. Three apes, one river, millions of years apart — and the water, Vellum says, keeps better records than the teeth. What the mud forgot, the river kept. What the river keeps, it has not yet told.”
because he dives off branches and swims like he invented it
because he out-swam Sefu's land route during the floods and Sefu admitted it
because the showing off is extensive and entirely earned
The Leaf-Eaters
The folivores: langurs, colobus, the proboscis with his magnificent nose. They eat what nobody else wants and have the calmest stomachs — and tempers — in the forest. Do not mistake quiet for simple.
