You're just getting settled and certainly not planning how to sneak some candied pears when a noise catches your attention…and a new, less appetizing scent follows it.
"Hoo hoo hoo hoo!"
"Oh hush. Hush with ye," another pair of laborers take turns saying, hefting an iron cage in their brawny arms.
"What are you doing?" you ask, quite pointlessly, as it becomes self-evident that the laborers are putting the cage in your cart. It's not the cage that startles you, mind you, but the being inside it…
"An ape?"
Yea Verily