“What if,” he broke into my thoughts, “every time the fisherman caught a fish and touched it, it changed into a man? The fisherman could them explain to the first fish-turned-man what had happened to him. He could tell him about the plight of his kinfish trapped in their watery prison how they, too, can be freed by the touch of a human hand. He could teach the man to catch fish and to repeat the process. Soon their number would multiply.”