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Keva smiles ruefully at him."I should have had years before this happened. Gone out... experienced the world... found a partner or two... damn... this sucks... I don't know the first thing about wooing anyone... Where's Tam? He can give me pointers... sort of... as least he can tell me what not to do... I'm sure not going to try walking in his shoes."

Bez's voice calls out. "We're in the bedroom."

When he enters he finds Tam, still out cold. The cubs are curled up against his stomach, tummies quite full and sleepily grumbling at each other. Bez is sitting behind him, slowly grooming his fur with a coarse brush. He looks up and flashes Kero a sad smile. "He was beginning to look a little scruffy... not that he'd mind, but... I.... I wanted to do something for him."

"Talking shouldn't be a problem, he won't wake up. Feeding him is kind of hard though. Good thing he really doesn't need it to survive. I keep the girls next to him and stay with him as much as I can... Girls... no fighting..." he interjects reaching down and separating the two. "Sorry, they been kind of cranky all afternoon. Wish I knew what was wrong."

Ari looks at him and curls up into a tight ball. "Go away.... go away..." she demands angrily.

Mara snaps at her. "Not his fault...."

When Kero asks what isn't his fault Mara replies. "Mama smell funny... "

As he is not quite certain what he should be smelling he almost misses it... a scent of dust and ancient memories, so faint as to almost be undetectable. Those cubs have a rather good sense of smell. And, as he is very familiar with the smell himself, Kero realizes that what the cubs are smelling on Tam is him. No wonder Ari doesn't want him around.

Bez sighs and shakes his head. "I told ye before. he has to heal... hopefully he will heal. I honestly don't know... I've only seen him this bad once before and then for only a few brief moments before I was tossed out on my ear. I just don't know.... but I do know it won't do any good grousing about it... He did what he felt he had to do... so we wait... and I play nursemaid... " he sighs and gives a soft bitter laugh. "That sounded really really trite.... sorry Kero... I'm not angry with you... or him... or anyone for that matter... well maybe I'm a little put out with him. He has always had some of existence's worse sense of timing."

Bez smiles. "You can stay for a time, iffin you like... I should probably take the girls to the box before they get too comfortable. Would you like to brush him a bit. Don't know iffin it helps but, I'd like to think it does." He offers the brush to Kerobian with a trembling smile.

As he works he begins to see what Bez is talking about, Tam is indeed healing, but ever so slowly and when he tries to send a trickle of healing power into the lion's body to strengthen the effect, he finds it recoiling back on him. The throat, though remains whole, it is a separate and completely different form of healing.