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Tyki: Broken Balance

He was staring into the flames from his favourite armchair. He wanted to be one with the dancing flames, not in the suicidal or arson way, but because they had what he wanted, balance. They were taunting him with the fact that they could both warm the room and eat away at the logs at the same time. He was interrupted from his thoughts when Road began calling his name.

"Tyki, I'm bored, why haven't you been talking recently?" Road whined.

Tyki remained silent.

"Is it because of that exorcist we met the other day? You never told me who he was or how he knew you."

Tyki pointedly picked up a newspaper and began reading.

"C'mon Tyki! Answer me!"

"It's nothing, really, Road. I just know that boy from before I was a Noah. I haven't seen him in awhile"

Neither of these statements were untrue, he hadn't seen Eez for a long time; weeks before the Ark, and he had known Eez before he was a Noah. Strung together, however, the statements were misleading. Road bought it.

"Oh… okay Tyki, just making sure nothing was wrong."

Tyki was relieved, it seemed as if part of his troubles had been solved, but Road went on.

"Kill him next time… We don't want the exorcists to know too much about us, right?" Road winked and ran off, leaving Tyki alone to his thoughts once again, although now, he didn't want to think about it.

What should I do? I can't kill Eez, I just don't think I'm capable of it. But if I don't kill him, I'll be killed for treason just like the fourteenth, and then he'll be killed anyway. Tyki thought.

He finally decided, after weighing his few options, to see how it would work if he simply tried to avoid Eez. Also, Tyki had been told that he had some time off soon. In this time he could visit the mines to see if he could get mote information, and he could also check on his last hope, that it was really Eez that he had seen. He hoped that it was actually a different boy that he had seen, one very similar to Eez, so similar that Tyki had hallucinated the rest. Yes, this was wishful thinking, but Tyki didn't have anything else left.

"Tyki-pon, dinner time " he heard the Earl calling him.

"I'm coming" Tyki called back.

As he got up, he looked into the flames once again. They were dying out.


Is it just me, or can I not write much about Tyki? Well, I think the next Tyki chapter will be longer because something will actually happen besides thinking (yay!). The chapters actually should be getting longer as we're moving towards the climax...

Next chapter: Eez again. Tiedoll will explain to him what the Noah clan is. (Okay, I lied, it's possible that this chapter will be short as well now that I think about it...)

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