Timon snatched the water from Urd and guzzled it down immediately. He was so desperate to get that horrible taste out of his mouth, had she not offered him the water he would have gone so far as to lick the floor. The meerkat stuck his tongue out and looked up at the goddess pointedly. That look on her face said it all. “I was only looking. Besides, you left it right in the open. If that’s not an invitation, I don’t know what is. I was simply observing without touching anything… on purpose. Therefore it was not snooping.”

He frowned and looked down at himself in disgust. Picking a large clump of fur off, he held it up and looked at it briefly before flicking it aside. “Uh, this’ll only get rid of the long fur, right?”