Moonspear forty winks

Evidently there was some sort of magic involved, as Atlas didn't have a straight answer for her. Meerkat didn't mind that in the least, it made it quite the enchanting little mystery. She also didn't mind the way Atlas gently touched her, his nose cool and damp against her svelte fur. It tingled where he touched, a little shiver of delight racing down her spine and resulting in a sudden twitch of her tail.

"Welllll... I'll do my best to get fluffier," Meerkat said, scrunching up her face and grunting as if trying to mentally force her fur to grow thicker. When she reopened an eye a beat later, she loosened up and observed with a chuckle, "I'll keep working on it. Maybe I should just eat more?" Little did she know that padding on some extra fat would achieve the same ends. "Although it might be cool to be an ice cube." Was that pun intentional?

Atlas offered to take her to a good locale for watching snow showers. Of course she wanted him to show her! Her heart did a little song and dance against her ribs as she nodded with an emphatic, "Aw yiss!" Then a thought floated through her mind and Meerkat guessed, "Is it up high, in that grove where the air gets sorta... thin?" A cheeky smile wound onto her face because it fit that Atlas would take her someplace to steal her breath away.