"Thank you. It is a pleasure to meet you, too," he told her, genuinely. Oskar didn't notice the amusement- as far as he was concerned, there was nothing funny about a business card, but many adults did seem to give him a look he didn't understand, and ruffle his hair in an irritating manner.
But not Maria. She called him a man.
He smiled, and shuffled from foot to foot. "I would like to be, but I've barely seen anything outside of New York, and even that is bigger than I expected. But I would like to go to Africa to study the wildlife there, one day," he explained. "But I am scared to fly," he added softly.