Maleena nearly purred at the warm compliment, but could just contain herself - this was neither the time nor the place to let the birds and squirrels think she was enticed so easily (and maybe also not Akira).<br/><br/>She didn't bother to take her bag - that wasn't a lady's duty, after all, but it seemed Akira had already mentioned bringing in the luggage somehow, anyway. Her ears also perked at the mentioning of the room -<em>their room</em>as decorated by Maleena. How often she had pictured it from the photos Akira had shown back at Greenwood, just enhanced with the sheets and designs Maleena had picked out. She had pictured the light of the sun falling gently through a crack in the curtain to flood the clean sheets with its warm, yellow light, tiny dust flakes - the ones that were always there in the air - dancing in the magnificent rays.<br/><br/>She had fallen asleep with the picture in her mind a few nights while breathing Skuld's enticing scent. Both, image and scent, had wormed their ways into her dreams and certainly, Akira had appeared there a few times as well. Little would she tell him about such nightly adventures. However, the idea that all the things she had pictured in her mind might really already be in place - and even better, that they were topped by Skuld's longed-for feather - made the sun feel just a little warner, the birds a little more lively and that squirrel a little more happy as it was chewing away on its nuts.<br/><br/>Now, in thanks for the wonderfully kept promise and the sweet compliment, Maleena pecked a sweet kiss onto Akira's cheek, leaning up a tad because even though she was not small for a catgirl, she couldn't quite catch human size. "Thank you," she mumbled for only him to hear and then let him go sign those papers for Doreen.<br/><br/>She cautiously placed herself next to Skuld, ready to grab that tank top should the oblivious squirrel be in any danger from Skuld's over-excitedness. They didn't have to start this relationship off by committing murder in the garden, even though Maleena generally didn't mind Skuld being close to her cattish nature. Death and life were, after all, part of the world, but it would be somewhat fair to give the critters a bit of a chance to realize that their place wasn't as safe anymore as it used to be. Also, humans often had a bit of a different view on the matter.<br/><br/>