What had happen was....

"You went into Ash City...?"

Mano tried to control his voice when questioning his daughter, as she had just gotten back from being kidnapped; and he didn't want to scare her.

Mika stared at her father, not knowing what to say. The story she finished telling him had nothing about her going to Ash City.

"..umm..."

"Why did you enter that forbidden place?"

"Umm..."

"How did you even get there?"

"Umm...."

"What possible reason could you have to go there?"

"Umm..."

Mika was trying to come up with an answer to tell Mano, but he was firing off questions too quickly for her to think of a response to one.

Saavi wanted to help, but she thought she might make things worst.

Mano knew he was being too forceful, yet he couldn't stop himself. His emotions were all over the place.

All the messages he had received since she came to the Steppe replayed in his head. From her awakening to her almost dying, then the war, and just when he thought she was safe she was kidnapped!