Evil Monkey Business

Oh jeez thought Violet- I can’t remember what I am supposed to say back to this guy. She focus her eyes on the man’s shiny badge and tried to think what the Billy guy had told her and Sven about this. “Oh yeah!”, she yelled “I remember—could I have a green one?” she asked with a confident smile. The very tiny man stared up at her with a crinkled brow, and began frowning. “tsk tsk tsk” he spat at her, “You think you can try to fool me with that?, Noone is getting past me with that phony response!, you must take me for a fool!” Violet tried to think as hard as possible what the right response was supposed to be, but after the extraordinary day she had how was she to remember something as small as that? Where the hell is Sven when I need him? She thought. How am I supposed to fend for myself in a place where I didn’t even plan on being- he’s the sciencey one who knows all about this stuff! The man slammed the door abruptly telling her to go away if she planned on fooling around like this.
Violet plopped down on a large mushroom-like stump, it was nice and fluffy the sand so soft between her toes made her become sleepy and weary-eyed. I want to go home, she thought as she started yawning. As she breathed in after each yawn she could almost taste that burnt sugar cookie smell, she spat on the sand and was immediately awaken when she saw the patrol ocean starting for her again. Almost miraculously she remembered what Billy had told her. “DO YOU HAVE ONE IN BLUE!!” she screamed as she busted through the door into the building. The little man came around from his desk, Violet gasped at his body. From his head to the end of his rib cage he was a short stumpy sort of man, then from his stomach on he had monkey feet and a hairy tail popping out through his trousers. “So you did meet Billy I take it?” he asked Violet with a grin.
“Uhh yes, my brother Sven and I did right when we landed in the vortex, he told us to find this building and ask if you had a nightcap in blue” she said not making eye contact with him,. She was too occupied looking at his strange body.
“OH for god sakes” the little monkeyman yelped. “Haven’t you ever seen a half man half pillowbeak??.”
“Not recently” Violet replied sarcastically.
“Never mind that, you are here with your brother you say?” the little man asked looking behind her and outside the door.
“Yes I am but we were separated during the patrol waves…I guess I didn’t try too hard to stay with him” she confessed quietly.
The little man could tell that there was some tension there and decided to leave it alone while he motioned Violet to follow him.
The two walked down a hallway which slowly seemed to be a chimney like tunnel, Violet noticed her feet were no longer trudging in front of her, but rather directly in place. She was marching and going down like a pencil dive in the pool! She saw the monkeyman directly below her marching in the same manner. When are things going to be normal again, she wondered—
“Not until we’ve figured this all out” the man shouted from under her.
He just heard inside my head! She panicked.
“Yep, it’s something I’ve been working on” he chuckled.
The long vertical tunnel came to a stop, they were standing on what felt like sand but it was too dark to see. Violet put her hands out in front of her to try and find some sort of stability, since she was feeling extremely light-headed from all the vertical travelling.
‘You’ll be fine, just take a deep breath” the little man said, “sorry I read your mind, I just don’t want you to worry if you don’t have to” he said. “Now, suck in some air and duck.”
Just as Violet obeyed his command they ducked through a stone arch and were in the forest light again. Chirping, and squaking came from high upon the tree bottoms. Then, "Those monkey-bastards may have killed my sister!" Violet heard Sven clearer than day behind her. But when she turned to see him there was nothing, just forest. Then she heard her own voice, “Own up to your mistakes, Sven, you drove me away.”
This was all too weird and Violet shouted at the monkeyman demanding to tell her what was going on. “Do you have my brother in captivity? Where is he! I demand to know at once!.”
The little man stopped and stared at Violet, “You would like to know, wouldn’t you?”