"THIS IS NOT SAFE!" Bai Yue shrieked as she plummeted through the air for the third time in ten minutes.
A young male monkey caught her at the last second, his tail wrapped around a vine, and swung her back up to the work platform with a laugh. "It's totally safe! We haven't lost anyone permanently in at least... oh... two weeks?"
"TWO WEEKS?!"
"What? That's a good record!"
The "maintenance" turned out to be a chaotic, terrifying process where young male monkeys tested the strength of the vines by jumping on them, using anything and anyone as "test weights."
And apparently, Bai Yue was the perfect test weight.
"Again!" a monkey called from above. "Throw her higher this time!"
"NO!" Bai Yue yelled. "No higher! I'm fine with the current height! Which is ZERO! ON THE GROUND!"
But her protests were ignored as she was tossed from vine to vine, each monkey testing the strength and flexibility of their aerial highways by seeing if they could catch and throw the screaming female.
