Sun Mote Copse I feel so close to you right now, it's a force field.

She noted his hesitation, which did not really surprise her, but Eljay answered her question with reassuring promptness. Her head canted slightly as she pondered his offhand comment before her orange gaze dropped to Meerkat. She hadn't even thought about it, though she supposed that being forced from a warm, snug sanctuary into the world at large was an ordeal, not to mention the part where her own mother had initially mistaken her for a particularly large pile of scat.

Towhee didn't realize Eljay had posed a question of his own, though she caught herself and snapped her attention back to the caretaker's face. "Would you like to see her?" she asked, unaware that she was being extremely redundant. He could probably make her out, latched to one of her mother's teats, but she was partly obscured by the shadows and Towhee's own body. Reluctant to disrupt her feeding, the Regent mulled a moment before shifting very slowly, rotating herself further back into the log and scooting Meerkat forward into the proverbial limelight.

Aside from a few curious touches from @Phox, @Figment and @Fennec (who'd gently sniffed and touched the babe quite a bit at first), no one aside from Towhee had really touched Meerkat much. She did feel a little reluctant to let Eljay poke and prod her, though despite her personal feelings toward him, she trusted him in a professional capacity. It wasn't the easy, implicit trust she felt with Raven, though her very behavior demonstrated the amount of faith she had in Eljay as a medic.