Maleena was a catgirl and so it was only natural for her to be able to move in an elegantly feline way. It was also natural for her to have a keen sense of smell and to use smell as a primary way of interacting with the surrounding world. Akira knew that all too well. The main problem, was that Maleena was an extremely beautiful girl, and having someone like her gently approach him and delicately smell his neck was<em>bound</em>to give Akira shivers. And so the boy duly shivered and relied on his self-control to avoid smiling idiotically to her.<br/><br/>His brain wondered a bit about the technical possibility of mixing his own soap scent with lime and olive… and he decided that he would give it a try. There were many perfume shops in the city… and he knew a couple big ones where nearly anything could be found… Akira wondered if he was being too accommodating with Maleena, but he decided that if he was going to be strict somewhere with her that would not be about perfumes. Again, smell was important for catgirls.<br/><br/>A part of Akira was realizing that the beautiful Maleena was practically wrapping him around her finger but… oh well, it wouldn’t hurt as long as the requests were not over the top.<br/><br/>“Wheeee~!!”<br/><br/>Akira was fully expecting a bouncing Skuld making her appearance into the room. The fact that this appearance happened in the form of a multi-colored Skuldball took him a bit off guard and when the rolling catgirl bumped against his legs he stumbled and nearly fell down.<br/><br/>“Ack!”<br/><br/>He flailed and staggered a bit, in a very unmanly way and recovered his balance after some difficulties… and then he turned on his heels, and saw a wide eyed Skuld purring at the sight of the feather that maleena was now holding. He smiled… and his gaze became warm. Akira was accustomed to much coldness when it went to family relationships with his father always striving to be the perfect son of his terrible grandfather. Those two catgirls were… a completely different thing. And Akira’s smile had a new hint of warmness as he slowly came near Skuld, crouched at her side and gently patted away some ash from her calico hair. Then, he looked at Maleena, still holding the feather.<br/><br/>“Aren’t they beautiful?” he whispered to Skuld… using the pronoun ‘they’ referring to both Maleena and the feather. Then, he stroked her head and scratched lightly her ears smiling at her purring. “We have to find a good place to put your feather collection. A big place… since there will be more feathers coming. I am<em>good</em>at finding feathers” he laughed.<br/><br/>He beamed to both of them. He could admit it… things were going well. Akira was beginning to feel a wave of optimism lighten up his personal hopes about his future as a catgirl veterinarian.<br/><br/>And... he was also very happy to have them there. On a personal level.<br/><br/>Very, very happy.