The Tiger Is Still Alive, Right?

The story opens with an old man hovering over a very sick tiger. She stays with him as he dies, and immediately after she walks away, she says, ayeye, it was a interesting tia nos lik o. The next story opens again with a narrator, a reporter, this time, checking into a hotel room only to find a doll like lady and her dog inside. And the woman is giving away tomatoes that she organically grows on her arm.