Foreign tongue to me at once makes me think of Latin --I am the worst classical mythology geek who didn't take any Classics courses in school, ha! (But the way Cassandra appears in the Aeneid to be horribly carried off and then...disappear indefinitely NEVER sat well with me, so I definitely wanted to grump about that too) Thank you for the lovevly prompt!
Re: with apologies to Le Guin's Lavinia....