One day on her mythical island, C turns a group of hostile sailors into pigs. O, their commander, searches for them. When O learns that his crew is in a pigpen at the bottom of her hill, he demands that she change them back. Then C shows him a photo of current combat troops. The story weaves back and forth in time and location between an army camp in the Middle East, Walter Reed Hospital, and the classical Circe and Odysseus story. By the end, we know who C and O really are, and what happened between them in combat.