"Now I know you're teasing," Strange teases in return, giving Tyki a wry little smile. "After all, grieving? That's a turn of phrase that would be marked down as 'too hyperbolic'."

By now, the sandwich is pretty much vanished: Strange polished that sucker off fairly quick. He chews and swallows before he continues talking.

"Anyway, you're not the only person in the carnival I can gossip with and not the only member of acquisitions who I can bother with questions." But let's be real, he's going to be the only member of acquisitions that Strange bothers because Cole is weird and Zangetsu is slightly terrifying.