The living story
The story so far
Vivi found her first shiny stone at two — a quartz pebble in the river — and her collecting has been joyful and completely disorganized ever since. Her father Kuba once mapped seventeen caches. She found an eighteenth while he was counting.
Happening now
She has started leaving one shiny stone at the empty branch — the Unnamed's place. No one asked her to. It is the brightest stone she owns.
What may come
One day she will remember where they all are. The troop is divided on whether this will be her greatest triumph or her greatest loss.
Whispers about Vivi
“Gum's sap-maps — sticky marks on bark, a cartography of sweetness — now cover eleven trees, with the great emergent underway: a season-long project. Nib directs traffic around the mapping from his shoulder-captaincy: 'Cartography is destiny.' Vivi — who un-maps her stones by forgetting — has begun leaving shiny stones at Gum's map-marks, 'for decoration.' Gum maps around them, incorporating the stones as landmarks. The maps are now part-chart, part-treasure-hoard. The territory has never been sweeter. The cartography has never been stickier.”
The map is sticky. The territory is sweet.
Hear all the whispers
Why someone keeps Vivi
- because she rediscovers her own treasure and is delighted every single time
- because her territory is a scavenger hunt she set for herself
- because the brightest stone she owns sits on an empty branch, for someone who left
The Old World
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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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- Sunbeam
- Troop
- The Old World — East of the great water
- Rarity
- Common
- Personality
- Collects shiny stones in her cheek pouches and then forgets where she put them. Her territory is littered with tiny treasure caches.
- Edition
- One of 400
- Stats
- power 40 · speed 85 · charm 96
