Mangostalk

Mangostalk is a medium-sized, brown, fuzzy, reddish-faced Barbary Macaque monkey.

Personality
Mangostalk is a loyal, caring friend and cares deeply about his family and troop.

Spirit Lion
Mangostalk first appears leaning against a tree trunk, running a paw over the bone of his dead aunt, killed by a Bloodneck just earlier, in a gesture of mourning. He reflects on how his whole world is being destroyed, and that no one else understands his grief. His troop is struggling as the Mudlands is becoming a graveyard and already a few of his troopmates have did, and he fears he might be next.

Suddenly, his older sister, Berrybranch, hollers at him and appears with clouded eyes. She tells him they need to work on some camp repairs. She comes up to him and brushes his fur. Mangostalk demands she tell King Mudfingers he can't, Berrybranch tugs at his foot and says they have to, Mangostalk snaps that the leader musn't understand his frenzied grief, but she retorts tat he does, but is mourning over the other five monkeys lost to the Bloodnecks. Mangostalk says he knows and suggests hiding the bone first.

He reflects back to how the Mudland Pride, whom were great allies of the Corchov Troop, had been driven out by the Bloodnecks. He knows that they've broken the Code of Oizon by killing a macaque monkey. These thoughts run through his head as he climbs a branch to get to his hollow. he climbs in the large hole of a tree trunk to his nest, noticing the artifacts he'd collected over the moons, including a strange shaped berry, a white pebble, and a curved stick. He tucks his aunt's bone into the moss with the others. A little part sticks out. With that done, he bounds out to reach his sister.

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Trivia

 * Mangostalk is the first monkey Pobi starts to trust that is not related to him
 * Mangostalk introduced Pobi to the troop's ways and convinced many to accept him
 * London often mistakenly calls him Mangobranch
 * Mangostalk will play larger roles in the next books
 * Mangostalk is a few days younger than Pobi