Road gave an interest little hum. Not Szayel's type? Road didn't think she was anyone's type, certainly not once they found out who she was, but the way Lumi said it, well....

"That's a pity," she said. "He sounds like he'd be fun to play with." Fun for someone, anyway. Fun for her, at least, and maybe for Tyki too if he had a type and it was Lumi. It depended on whether his type was tall men, or the stoic pet with a nasty bite.

Tyki could do everything but the stoic part.

"Who is he?" She had a name, and apparently people punched him a lot. There were rules against harming someone's underlings, rules which had been stressed and re-stressed in the Earl's usual kindly, playful manner, but at the end of it, upsetting people here wasn't going to benefit the Earl.

So who got punched a lot, but didn't take recourse? Did someone just not worry overmuch about their underlings, or was it another new member no one cared about?