<div align="center"><em>Autolycus, still in the Infirmary with Sorcha</em></div><hr/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Prakkie/Medicus.jpg)</div>Autolycus watched Galo go with a kind of relief. He would need to talk to the man at some point, if only because they had a working relationship and it would be impractical to have this awkwardness between them, but he couldn't manage it right now and was glad his assistant didn't ask any questions.<br/><br/>His head whipped round as Sorcha banged the lock only to see she'd hurt herself trying to escape. He sighed. Even drugged it seemed getting away from here was foremost in her mind. "It won't do any good," he said gravely, shaking his head as he watched her massage her shoulder. Even if she managed to get out of the cage, out of the infirmary, there were walls and barred gates and guards all around the compound. She'd get caught. Punished more severely than she'd been before. Even if, against all odds, she managed to get out of the ludus the woman looked more foreign than anyone he'd ever seen, didn't speak Latin... She was only likely to get caught again, sold again as a slave to another man.<br/><br/>He tried to catch her eyes, wanting to make some contact. As she didn't understand his words he could try some gestures maybe, speaking wasn't the only way to communicate.<br/><br/>Suddenly, as if to prove him wrong, she spoke to him in Latin. Twisted, distorted Latin but Latin nonetheless and his eyes went wide.<br/><br/>"You can speak..." he said, a bit foolishly, as he stared at her. Of course she could speak! He'd heard her speak, just not anything intelligible.<br/><br/>It took him a while, shocked as he was to hear her speak the language of the Empire, to realize she'd asked for water. As soon as he did he hurried to poor her an earthen cup of the stuff. Placing it by the cage where she could reach it through the bars. Just like he'd done before, with the drugged wine, he realized with an odd sense of deja-vu as he waited for her to take the cup.