[Tyki can be sentimental. He'd like to come across as aloof or cold, but that's just not how he is. He's a fun young man with a dry sense of humor and a love for family and friends-Once you take the whole biblical murderer out of the equation, at least.

He blinks at her comment about the plagiarism. He learns something new every day in Hadriel.] I hadn't a clue, and I'm not surprised in the least. A good many famous people take more than their fair share of someone else's work. But yes, I've read a bit of Marlowe. I'd just sooner take a modern murder mystery on any given day. [Tyki stops for a moment, a thought coming to him that really amuses him.] Modern for me, anyway. Which means it might be taught to others in classical literature. [Very modern books would blow his mind.]