"I would protect you." It made no sense and Xavin knew it, but she said it anyway. It was... nice, somehow, to think about meeting someone else's parents. That someone else's parents - that Hurley's mother - wasn't evil, was simply a parent who loved their child and occasionally made things embarrassing. "I have never actually seen a normal human household. In La Brea, we actually lived in the Tar Pits. Under them, rather, in a secret base. Malibu was another such base, though it looked like a house."