Aurora chair. More torture. More screaming. Shran McCain admits that he doesn't like having to do this to Soval, as he came to trust him during their treaty negotiations, but he must know where their fleet is. Soval screams that he's going to tear Shran's antennae clear off his head. Is he then going to piss down his dead skull? "You would never betray your people!" Shran yells. "I'm trying to SAVE THEM!" Soval yells back, and struggles under the restraints. "Where is YOUR FLEET?!" Shran bellows. Soval stops struggling and asks Shran, "Do you know the story of Nirak?" Combs is hysterical here, he squints and takes a step back as he hisses, "WHAT?" like he's convinced Soval is now totally insane. Soval tells a story about this Nirak guy, who was a soldier a long time ago. He was standing watch over the gates of the city of Gol and saw a big cloud approaching. He thought it was a sandstorm, so he didn't raise the alarm. Turns out it was actually an army and all Gol in Caesar was destroyed. The army let Nirok live, and now his name means "fool" in Vulcan. "Just as yours will in Andorian!" Soval finishes his fairy tale. Shran McCain gets angry and ups the setting. Soval starts to retain water and get irritable.