<div style="text-align: justify;">Marissa had felt a little shy about asking Nanook if the posture he was now taking was a risky one. It was a valid question, but she wanted to make sure that she would not offend her new friend, teacher, and perhaps eventually mate. <br/><br/>When he answered her silent question, Marissa smiled and nodded, keeping on with her petting motion. “I was indeed thinking that. I was concerned about you. But I should know that you would know better than that”, she replied. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make you think that I don’t trust your intelligence”, the girl apologized. <br/><br/>When Nanook told her his birth date, Marissa’s eyes widened. She stared at him for a long moment, almost waiting for Nanook to laugh and tell her that he was joking. When he didn’t, Marissa let her jaw drop. “Wow”, she exclaimed in a stunned voice. “I feel like a baby”, she confessed with a smile. “But no, you look very good for such an old man”, Marissa finally joked. “You cover the grey hairs very well”.<br/><br/>Seeing Nanook snarl scared Marissa a little. Not that she was afraid of him, but she was worried that she had said the wrong thing. When he asked those questions, Marissa resumed the petting she had interrupted. “No, I don’t really have a lot of jewelry in general. I’m a pretty modest girl”, she replied with a smile. <br/><br/>A slight blush crept into her cheeks. “I think you should only give me something like that if you really want to. But you will see that I’m not the kind of girl who really cares much for jewels and things like that”. The girl giggled a little and nibbled on her lower lip, before leaning forward and placing a kiss on the top of Nanook’s head. “I don’t really need anything like that, really. Okay?”, she completed, making sure that he knew that she wasn’t the kind of girl who would want expensive things.</div>