[voice]

[meerkatmama.livejournal.com]

What am I supposed to do with all this snow - is that what folk have been calling it? The cold is treacherous and my son is sick from being out in it so long. [pause] I hope everyone's taking care of themselves. When you stop shivering it doesn't mean you're suddenly not cold anymore!

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[Voice]

[meerkatmama.livejournal.com]

Certainly not where I'm from!

[Voice]

[gold-dust-pixie.livejournal.com]

No wonder people get sick in this stuff. I thought it was pretty at first, but...

Um, have you tried contacting some of the healers around? I can do a little and I know some others are around. Maybe we can help your son.

[Voice]

[meerkatmama.livejournal.com]

Healers? [what's this magic mumbo jumbo; but she sighs] Even if they could do something that I can't, he'd likely just get himself in the same mess soon after.

[Voice]

[gold-dust-pixie.livejournal.com]

Wait, you're Timon's mother?

[Voice]

[meerkatmama.livejournal.com]

[well duh. she seems to bristle a little] Yes, I'm Timon's mother.

[Voice]

[gold-dust-pixie.livejournal.com]

He never said he had a mother! I thought he was the only meerkat here. Do you read him bedtime stories?

[Voice]

[meerkatmama.livejournal.com]

I haven't told him bedtime stories in a long time... [she sounds thoughtful]

[Voice]

[gold-dust-pixie.livejournal.com]

The Lost Boys say a mother has to read stories every night! I bet that'd help Timon feel a lot better.

[Voice]

[meerkatmama.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'll make sure to try it!

[Voice]

[gold-dust-pixie.livejournal.com]

The ones with adventure and danger are the best! Maybe about a heroic meerkat who saves the day and wins a big bucket of slimy grubs!

[Voice]

[meerkatmama.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... [not her normal schtick but...] I like the way you think!

[Voice]

[gold-dust-pixie.livejournal.com]

Oh...thanks! My name's Tinkerbell, by the way. I met your son last week, before all this snow came.

[Voice]

[meerkatmama.livejournal.com]

Tinkerbell, huh. It's nice to meet you.

[Voice]

[gold-dust-pixie.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you too! So...what was Timon like as a baby?

[Voice]

[meerkatmama.livejournal.com]

Complicated.

That boy! He had ambitions even when he was young! [this probably wasn't a good thing, but she's not going to mention that]

[Voice]

[gold-dust-pixie.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't think he was the ambitious type... What sort of ambitions?

[Voice]

[meerkatmama.livejournal.com]

[her voice is a bit unamused] He once made a slingshot to battle off hyenas with rocks, but instead of hitting the hyenas, he hit his Uncle Max and almost got eaten by the hyenas.

[Voice]

[gold-dust-pixie.livejournal.com]

[she tries not to laugh but she can't help it -- there's some muffled giggles] O-oh! Geez, that's...well, great invention always has some risk!

[Voice]

[meerkatmama.livejournal.com]

[she doesn't get what's so funny]

And then there was the time with the "underground pool"...

[Voice]

[gold-dust-pixie.livejournal.com]

[she suspects, but she might as well ask...] How'd that turn out?

[Voice]

[meerkatmama.livejournal.com]

Not as well as he was probably hoping, that's for sure!

[Voice]

[cowardly-hero.livejournal.com]

Maaaaa, stop it. No one needs to know about that!

[Voice]

[gold-dust-pixie.livejournal.com]

It's not that bad! Every inventor runs into trouble now and again. But throwing a rock at your uncle...[she chuckles]

[Voice]

[meerkatmama.livejournal.com]

But she asked. There's no harm, Timon.

[Voice]

[gold-dust-pixie.livejournal.com]

[she giggles more] Poor Timon!