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Father~! Are we playing a game of hide and seek? You promised you’d take me to school today! I don’t want the teachers to think I’m skiving off unless I’m doing it on purpose.
Where is everyone? This isn’t any fun!
It’s the first time my door didn’t take me exactly where I wanted to go…Tyki had better come find me really soon or I’ll be so mad at ( Read more... )
Where is everyone? This isn’t any fun!
It’s the first time my door didn’t take me exactly where I wanted to go…Tyki had better come find me really soon or I’ll be so mad at ( Read more... )
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[Personally, Tyki doesn't see the point in fighting a Exorcist weak enough to lose more than once, but Road has different tastes. He lets her poke away. It's an upgrade from the punching, though he does look somewhat bemused.]
The stomach doesn't tend to hurt unless it's removed, Road.
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[She almost looks concerned now - not that that stops her from poking even harder, just to make sure - it's not like Tyki to pretend something never even happened.
Especially something like that.]
Don't you remember, Tyki?
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Remember what?
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[He really didn't remember, did he? Road can't understand how he could forget that - Allen had exorcised his Noah, after all. But maybe it's for the best. He's family, and more importantly, he's Tyki, and he's not supposed to be able to get hurt.
She stops in mid sentence and throws her arms around his neck, quite happy to dangle there until he gets the hint to pick her up - no, of course this isn't a distraction technique.]
Take me home, Tyki! We do have a home here, right?
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What do you remember?
[Just to annoy her, he walks a few steps with his arms slack at his sides, dangling a little girl from his neck like a cravat. At last, Tyki relents and adjusts his grip around her.]
What's Cyril been feeding you? At this rate, you'll be as heavy as the Earl soon.
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[ His voice was muffled and heard before he came into view himself, a door of a nearby building close to the fountain opening a crack, a small golden golem sluggishly floating through and vanishing off somewhere in the City ]
Not again... He's most likely in here again.
[ Shortly after that, Allen steps through into view. He stops still then, looking around swiftly before turning back around to reopen the door, finding the inside to be completely different to the corridor he had just been in. Typical. The City was unpredictable as it ever was.
Sighing to himself, but smiling faintly despite it all, he turned back around and took a few steps forward. He supposed he should head back to the Firehouse again. But something made him pause suddenly, his head turning as a strange shiver ran over his back. He knew that feeling and it didn't take him long to notice the source, eyes falling directly on the two Noah. For a long moment while he stared, he found himself frozen ]
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It was. Standing motionless, staring at them, looking exactly as she remembered him.]
AL~LEN~!
[And she's out of Tyki's arms and onto Allen in the blink of an eye, knocking him to the ground as she squeezes her arms around him.
You see, Allen, she missed you. The look on your face when you see her. The way she can feel you tensing to push her off. Everything.
And if you hurt Tyki again she'll rip your friends' bones out and use them to stab you in the eye this time.
She giggles, the folds of her pretty dress creasing as she presses him tighter.]
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[ And the next thing he knows, he's on his back on the floor, his arms instinctively coming up to grab her shoulders as he does indeed go rigid where he lays, staring up blankly at the sky for a second. A dream, some messed up dream. Or a curse, he's walked in on a curse day.
But it couldn't be - she felt warm to him. Like all the other times she'd been that close to him.
He exhaled deeply, slowly, then as calmly as he could muster he tried to push her away from him, feeling the elegant clothing around her shifting and rustling against him ]
...get off of me.
[ooc; Thorn~ feel free to throw in a Tyki reaction here whenever you're around next ;p! ]
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[For a second, Tyki's expression is nothing but utter shock.
If it wasn't for Road, it would be easy to adjust to seeing the Exorcist. After all, the City pulls people in from all points. Perhaps the boy arrived here before his death. Road's past words, however, mingles with all the little physical clues, and Tyki knows. Time has passed. This is no longer the boy he'd left for dead.
Somehow, he survived.
Further action is in order, then. Perhaps he ought to let the Tease eat the whole heart next time. Tyki sighs, schooling his expression back into faint amusement, and runs a hand through his hair. Then he stands back to let Road molest away. There will be time enough for murder later, and he's rather enjoying the day.]
How unexpected.
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I'm so glad you're here too, Allen!
[A bright smile and innocent eyes, less than a couple of feet away from him. Waiting to see what Allen will do.]
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He freezes as he felt Road hold fast for a time, not wanting to do much to break the tension that may result in a fight if he could. There was two of them and only one of him from his understanding. The odds were not good and he knew how vicious Road could be, how dangerous Tyki was also. He had to be careful.
As she moves away, he makes to stand up quickly, shoulders back slightly in a stance that said he was far from comfortable but ready should either of them decide to attack ]
When? When did you two arrive here?
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[Result in a fight? As far as Tyki's concerned, the battle's inevitable. If the boy lived, he must have been stronger than he looked, and Tyki wants to see it manifest. Probably there's no way to kill him permanently while in the City, but that's no reason not to gauge his strength.
He saunters forward, still amiably smiling, and doesn't answer the question. The less Allen Walker knows, the easier it is to keep him off-balance. As for this, it's a casual exchange on an open City street - it might look almost normal.]
Long enough. There are a number of Exorcists here, aren't there?
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Nothing out of the ordinary here, just a young girl out for a stroll with her doting older brother, stopped to talk to an acquaintance. The most normal and natural thing in the world.
As if.]
Of course he's surprised, Tyki. Allen never expects to see us. Sometimes I think he doesn't like us very much.
[The last sentence is said with a lilt to it that clearly shows Road knows exactly how Allen feels about them, and cares not at all, besides finding it amusing.]
Are you going to stay and play this time, Allen?
[Her smile is more pointed, hinting at other meanings and another face.]
There are so many people around us who could join in.
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No more surprised than either of you, I suppose.
[ At Road's interjection, Allen focused the glare on her for a time, a low growl vibrating in his throat as he yanked the glove from his hand ]
If you're going to threaten citizens here then hurry up and say it; it'll give me a more than valid excuse to take the measures required to protect them.
[ And as he spoke, the fingers of his left hand elongated to slender talons, a small silver crown encircled his wrist, a wisp of white material fell over his shoulders. There was really no room for risk and hope. Who was he kidding? There was no way of avoiding a fight. They were drawn to it and he would be drawn to counter it ]
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Looking for excuses, now? How low the mighty have fallen.
[The tension's sharpening, running in the air like a current, and Tyki tilts his head back to drink it in. He loosens his grip just enough on Road for it to be a signal: one threatens the passersby, the other fights. Of course, he knows that Allen's special to her, but she can have his next death.
Tyki only wants to see the difference. It doesn't matter whether all or any citizens are killed in the making of his battlefield.]
You should consider your options, boy. How many of them can you truly save? A few? A handful? [That hooked smile again.] None at all?
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