The Arrival of Sparkles: Prologue

I don't know which was the first time I saw the sparkles appear around Timon. It might have been the first time he said I was his friend. Or when I had thought that he was abandoning mine, Simba's and his's friendship then ended up running past me and telling me that friends stick together. It might have even been when he dressed in that grass skirt and those flowers as a distraction so Simba could defeat his uncle.

At first I had thought that it was the heat or the tiring day making me hucitate…uh, no, hercitate, hulutate? No… Let's just say I thought they were making me see things that weren't really there.

These sparkles didn't show up again for a long while after I first saw them. But they did come back and they continue to appear. They only seem to show up at the weirdest of times. Maybe they're a new type of disease, or very, very small, shiny bugs, or even something I'm eating might be making me see them.

I don't think Timon and the others see them. I haven't had the courage to ask, or the right time to.

But here lately they've been showing up more and more.