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[Nobody touches Road. Not when this is her real body, not her dream, not when she's actually vulnerable and able to die. Tyki's always been one to side with what can please him, what gives him the better options, the most fun-- dying, well, that's no fun at all. But she's probably... one of the only people he'd do this for. Noah are expected to fight for and die --should they die-- protecting the Earl. But he'd never really thought about that. And the only other person he'd risk saving is a poor, sickly kid likely working in a quarry somewhere right now.
But he's hunched over her, coughing up blood with his head inclined away so it doesn't drip on her lace and linen from his chin. He does laugh, lightly, one of the only people he'd do this for... indeed.]