“He leads the chorus; when Rook starts, the whole New World answers.”
A Bark ape of The New World
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Rook's roar is the New World's dawn — the deep rolling thunder that says the troop is awake, alive, and here. He has led the chorus for twelve seasons, and his voice has only deepened.
He invited Pip — Pip! — to drum for the chorus one dawn. The old guard was scandalized. Rook said the chorus needed new thunder. He was right.
He meets Tumo and Kuba at the fallen emergent each season. He does most of the listening. His roar, the others say, got quieter and wiser.
“Three seconds last week — something deep came out of Basso's kettle-roar, and the whole troop froze. Hush's lullaby lessons are working; Rook's pretend-deafness is working; the roar is getting rounder. 'The roar,' Hush says, 'is just a lullaby sung outward.' The forest remembers when Rook's own voice was young. It remembers what it became. Basso practices louder. The thunder is coming. Everyone can hear it coming except, apparently, Basso.”
The kettle will become thunder.
The monkeys of the Americas: capuchins who can open anything, spider monkeys who never touch the ground if they can help it, howlers whose dawn roar is the forest clearing its throat. New troops, new mischief.
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