Fantasy illustration by Clyde Caldwell - The monkeys chirrup loudly, a cacophonous din reverberating throughout the cavern. They leap into the air and land on the rocks, chittering and screeching to one another. One of them grabs a rock and hurls it into the pool. It splashes loudly, but the monkeys do not recoil. You see tattered strings of rope and cloth tied around their necks, to which they have affixed baskets that they carry beside them.