Tycho was a little surprised when Ford leaned in close and he chuckled when Ford said that he smelled fine. "I hope that the small of lion doesn't linger on me. Though it was really what I imagined being a house cat must be like. Though much larger." He could not wait to get home to his own things, his own people and his own space.

"If I go missing again, she has murdered me for giving her a fright," Tycho said, a little worried despite his words of how his mother might have taken it. They had not been getting along very well lately but he knew logically it was due to a mix of factors that weren't really in either of their control.