More slow breaths of quasi-meditation. He was trying to keep his composure in the face of such doubt, but it was hard. People didn't really understand how their abilities worked back home, but enough knew of them and accepted it as fact. It was really going to take an effort to get used to this.

He could have motivated Timon himself, sure, but one didn't just Cheer to prove a point. It helped people, when they wanted and needed it, and the meerkat clearly wasn't in the category. Not yet. Besides, Tanaka there was anything he could do right now, with Timon as frustrated as he was.

"I've heard your name a couple times, I suppose," Tanaka admitted. Mostly within Timon's own journals, which he'd looked into since their last encounter.