Kassandra slept, and dreamt of home. While stone walls, carefully carved by their stonemasons. Larders full of fish and kelp for the taking. Beautiful woven tapestries depicting scenery or people from the past. And happiest of all, her parents, her wonderful parents. Her father, so strong and gentle. Her mother, warm and kind, and a little strange. She said there was something else, something beyond the beautiful sea, and that they should all watch out for it's arrival someday. Somehow her mother had been right. If only she could know where her only daughter had ended up now. When she awoke, Hiro was there. He seemed to be asleep, or looked like it. Looking around before speaking, she opened her mouth. But before she could get the word out, more men and women in white coats came with an odd machine and picked up her home. Water sloshed as she was taken away, and all she could do was bang furiously on the glass and hope that Hiro could come after her somehow. - To say she was angry was beyond the word. The strange people in white coats poked and prodded out her. They took away some of her blood, they clipped her hair - at one point they stripped away a bit of her tailfin, scales and all. She howled in pain, and at the treatment. Part of her didn't want to do this, but she had to make it stop. With all the force she could muster, she spoke. "Et non nocuerunt mihi placet!" Everything stopped. One of the people stared at her. "Holy shit. It talks?" Another one spoke. "Hey, if it talks, that means it's intelligent. Get this on recording." Kassandra spoke again. "Vellem autem vade in domum tuam!" None of the people said anything, and she realized that they didn't understand her at all. How could that be? Tear sprung to her eyes as she repeated the phrase again and again. Eventually, they took away their strange and painful instruments, and wheeled her back to the room she had been in. But this time, there was plenty of fish with her. Kassandra ate greedily, and waited for something to occur. Maybe she'd made a mistake by speaking? But they had stopped prodding at her, and gave her food, so perhaps it had paid off. Now, where was her Hiro?