Meanwhile--

Anita can take point on clubbing assuming that they speak English here? Apparently lots of people speak ""Maltese"", but maybe all of the cool people also speak English.

Now to find a club where they can try to buy Nectar. Anita can do the talking and Oswald can be largely silent and glower at appropriate times and maybe use his new lying skills if it ever seems like a good idea and Zoe can bodyguard to her heart's content.

Where should MAGNIFICENCE go.

Magnificence is STILL KIND OF CONFUSED ABOUT WHY THEY ARE HERE but probably the humans have a reason. in his experience humans move around a LOT.

In Zoe's experience, if you know the name of the drug and look friendly enough while saying it, eventually someone lets you have some of the drug.

He should. Uh. He should... add to... their eccentric foreigner appearance... and... cause distractions if necessary... or possibly he should study anthropology with Lev. These seem like equally good ideas.

He can imagine about the same number of ways for either plan to go horribly wrong.

Well if nobody tells him to go anywhere then he can stay with Zoe because zoe is the only one of these people he even SLIGHTLY knows.

He can take PICTURES.

Anita probably has a better sense than Zoe about how skittish drug dealers are about people bringing photo taking monkeys to drug deals.

Are we sure we can't get Lev to monkeysit.

Zoe is quite happy to bring Magnificence with her.

Eh people are weird sometimes?? Is it a tame monkey.

"Pretty tame? I'm not as good at handling him as ... my friend was. But he behaves."

Where behaves means "sometimes runs off to break into cult territory and take pictures of important cult artifacts."

Which Zoe thinks totally counts as behaving.

"I guess we can probably just explain him away however you usually explain him? ...why do we have a monkey with us for this, though."

"We inherited him from Anemone."

"I promised to look after him. No one else was gonna and we can't just leave him on his own."

"Oh. So. None of you know how to take care of a monkey. That's fine."

"I mean, I know approximately how? I saw what Anemone would feed him and stuff."

Okay, listen,,,

"He just doesn't like to listen to me as much. Which I don't blame him for, given his recent loss."

"Okay! Good. Then, just, you know, uh - I guess try to keep him from doing anything crazy."

"I think I can manage that."

Zoe actually is not entirely sure she can manage that but he doesn't actually try to do anything crazy all that often so it's probably fine?

To the nightclub! ...If Zoe is charming people and Anita is fast talking them perhaps Oswald should have the monkey, for less immediate distraction.

His animal handling isn't great but perhaps Zoe can do the actual handling and Oswald can be very unalarming.

They are so charming and believable.

Just two lovely ladies looking for a good night out on the town. With their friend the awkward fellow with the monkey.

The awkward fellow who is trying to come off as the grim silent type with a monkey, excuse.

"Oh, sure," a man says. "Now, other people will tell you to buy your Nectar from the parkies. They are at the parks throughout Valletta-- near La Gavroches in Upper Barracca, in the Argotti Gardens, you can't miss them. But I'm telling you they overcharge, and you really want to get your Nectar from the Faldetta Peaches.