Road's discomfort at the man walking in undetected did not pass Tyki by unnoticed. He looked over at her, saw her wide eyes and didn't see a trace of the impertinent girl she usually was on her face. The man frightened her. Now that was unusual.

He didn't look all that scary, besides. He was of a height with him, as pale as he was dark, and quite expressionless, the lack almost bordering on disdain.

"Yeah," he said.