Max was given the food, to which he started to eat immediately. While doing so, he heard her ask about his tails. He lifted his head to look at her, seeing her twiddling thumbs. She was asking to touch his tails? He didn't like physical contact, and didn't fully trust humans. Yet she was still making the effort to try and get through to him when everyone else was full of aggression toward him before. Her way of healing him, was what he needed all these years. Without saying anything, he went back to eating the Spaghetti. One of the tails, had made their way to her, as if telling her that he would permit it this time. Even though he was still wary of humans, and he was protecting her after she saved him, he could at least allow this much for her.