Tia was often treated poorly, just like the the animal her owners considered her to be. Even as a child she was kept locked up, chained to the wall with a massive collar wrapped around her neck. She had very little human contact... Especially after the incident with the guard, she had a deep mixture of fear and hatred for humans after that. Particularly human men. She was not taught to read or to speak properly though she fully had the capacity to learn and she never would. Had it not been for the young slave girl, Norr'mi.

Norr'mi was a young slave about the same age as Tia whom worked closely to her masters. She was taught to read, write and many other necessities so as to be able to do her job. She took an interest in Tia after first discovering her one night after hearing her crying through her from within her cell. Tia only cried when it was late at night and she knew she was alone as she did not want her owners to hear her.

Norr'mi began sneaking into Tia's pen late at night in order to read to her. Tia first started to show an interest in her actions as well as the stories she was being told. After discovering Tia didnt know how to talk or read she began teaching her in secret eventually her hard work paying off and Tia developing a full vocabularly... in which she used to ask Norr'mi many more questions.