"Thank you... After the very needed renovations, there wasn't enough budget for furniture. Then the research expeditions came, and decent life in the Neath is expensive... Eating properly and keep the publications running became more important than furnishing the house, and here we are many years later. Oh well... But thank you." Smiling sincerely returning to the tea table.

In the meantime Noa adopts a more playful stance, tail swishing left and right like a sharp furred duster, looking at Tularemia and compressing to a more manageable level, to play at the same height to the newly found companion.

That's not a complete box of chocolates, that's for certain, so Mori's mind can rest assured of any possible hidden meanings. The Professor does give him one of the cream fungi to try, their reptillian face showing reassurance that he'll be surprised. When put in the mouth isn't much different in texture from any other fungus, but after biting it releases a substance thicker than milk but with a heavily similar flavor, easily filling the mouth. Perhaps the calcium contents would be comparable as well.

"Now, let's see that excellent cake I've heard about~" The Professor is always so easy to tempt via their sweet tooth- Or fang, were you so inclined.