[Video: week 14, day 4]
[There is a dark skinned, dark haired man staring at a cow on the Hitomi's screen. He looks from the cow, to the Hitomi, and back again. There's a herd of cattle actually, and the man is standing among them wearing a rather revealing white tunic and black pants. His arms are crossed
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And lowing.
That voice. And lowing. Bovine lowing.
He's scrubbing the dirt off his face from the fall while fumbling wildly for his Hitomi.
What.
Just.
...There are zombies and Akuma and Kanda drinking blood water and tentacle things and nightmares and Lenalee looking at shadows like they might stab her and the Earl and people running and screaming and scared and-
... and then there is Tyki.
With his cows.]
... Tyki?
[Excuse him. Manners, forgotten. Oh, right. Noah. Also forgotten a bit. Private? What's that? Screw you, Link. ... Okay, not really.]
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[He doesn't know he's been gone. Is unaware of the general chaos, violence and trauma about. So he simply gives the device a raised eyebrow at Allen's rather surprised--too surprised--reaction. Really, the kid is so high strung.]
Boy. [He smiles, friendly enough, amused.] No need to be so shocked. You do remember what a cow looks like, I should think.
[It'd only been a few days.]
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[Mild sputtering.]
That's not the point. Weren't you... I thought you were gone.
[Let alone, you know, somehow idyllically frolicking with cattle while the rest of them were fighting for their lives. Really, it's almost too much for him. It's like the story of his life condensed down into one extra-potent form of insanity.]
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[Though that begs the quest. Why would Allen be hallucinating about Tyki? And cows. Some questions are best left unthought of.]
[But Tyki's still giving the Hitomi that quizzical look.]
My my, tired of me already? I'm afraid all the wishful thinking in the world isn't enough, boy. Still very much here.
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Lavi has seen Tyki's first arrival by now, and really, cows again? Wonder why they like him so much. Or maybe it's just coincidence.
But the weird thing is...
Oi, isn't this place supposed to be kind of wrecked? Like, all of it? That's... wrong. Weird. Uh.
He rubs his temples. Awesome, just great, more Noah. Just what they need. For a moment, he considers not replying because he's had enough of this damn family this week, thanks, but eventually he does take the Hitomi of his wrist to show his face.
His rather ruffled and not-so-happy-looking face.]
So you're back.
[And apparently have no memory of ever disappearing.]
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My my, when did you get here, Eyepatch?
[And why is he saying back? Tyki's pretty sure he's never left.]
[There's a moo at his elbow and he blinks down at a bovine nudging him before he steps out of the cow's path to better clover.] Oi now, no shoving.
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Several weeks ago. Ya've been gone for a while, y'know.
[...really, this image. The cows and... It's almost hilarious, except he doesn't feel like laughing at Noah. Especially not after...
Well, he's quite bitter...]
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Keep this up and you'll hurt my feelings.
[The way he sulks hardly seems menacing. Not a man who's tried to murder Allen three or four times, here. Really.]
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[Normally she would at least give the person speaking a cursory glance over, and she has been warned about the Noahs before so she would have at least known to be careful. But as soon as she saw the cows her mind became ruled by her stomach.
Right now she is secretly plotting a dastardly plan to get a cow from Tyki, because cows are delicious and she hasn't had one in ages (read: two weeks).]
Good sir, are these your cows?
[She says this as if it's perfectly normal for a dragon to be talking to a man. Which it is, in her world, but she often forgets that not everyone is used to seeing giant talking dragons.]
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[And here he thought Sharky was unique. He hasn't been in this place long enough to find the odd commonplace, but he's not entirely discounting the idea that this is, indeed, a dragon addressing him, either.]
[After all, he's been absently entertaining the idea--without much real conviction, true, but all the same--that one of these cows may be a god.]
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...No. I believe these cows are their own cows. Or possibly gods. I'm no expert.
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[Though she can tell from his words that he doesn't own these cows, or else he would have said so outright. So instead she watches him more closely, trying to figure out who he is and why he's in the middle of a herd of cows if he doesn't own them.
She might also be holding back on the nicer words, as she doesn't think she can convince him to give her a cow. It's not worth the effort if she can't get food from it.]
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Or her eyes.
She sits and stares a moment- before jumping clear out of her seat and bouncing practically all over the room.]
Tyki! You're here~ Allen said you were here before but that you were gone again and now you're back and the Earl's here and this'll be so much more fun~
[She grins, the expression a grim mixture of excitement and malicious intent.] Now that you're here~
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[Because surely if Road had arrived during the night he would have noticed, yes? She wouldn't have let him go ignorant of it. He wouldn't have just slept through it. Would he?]
[But if he's been gone for weeks, where has he been? And why can't he remember? And how long has she been here without him?]
[...Wait, the Boss?]
[...]
[Now he knows there must be something to the lad's story.]
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I'm not really too sure. It's hard to keep track of time here.
[...thinks some more.] A week ago, at least.
Anyway! You'd better hurry over here, before the Earl gets maaaaad~
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Tyki is actually here, Tyki's not swallowed up by the Noah anymore, Tyki's still alive. There had been some form of hope that he wasn't even if Cross had been sure that was unlikely, but still, seeing it...
Well, it doesn't exactly make him very happy.]
Cows, Tyki? I guess you didn't completely snap out of it; still insane.
[Still... Cows. And the surroundings look unaffected by all the chaos. Where is that? A safe haven?]
Where are you, exactly?
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[It's one thing to joke around with the cheating lad--so yes, his scars still hurt from that boy's damned sword, but if not for you and your meddling he'd have made that score even back on the Ark.]
[And then there had to be reports of your death. Amusing and annoying all at once because someone else got to you first.]
General. How good of your to join us here. Forgive my surprise, but I wasn't aware they allowed corpses into the place.
[Ignoring the question entirely. In fact, ignoring the cows now as well He was at least half paying attention to them out of amusement before.]
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But still, he has to grin, and he feels positively gleeful. This means he did something, something that had an effect, and, oh, it is glorious.]
I'm not a corpse. In my time, I haven't died yet. Are you alright? You look a bit strange.
[Yes, that it amusement, so much amusement.]
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[But instead of reacting. Or at least, reacting as he wishes to--it's hard to murder a Hitomi and it would only amuse Cross--he picks a cow and leans against it.]
We could always fix that for you, general. But please, spare your concern. This future and past nonsense leaves a man somewhat fatigued.
[So much not amused.]
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