Caleb was pushed into the orphanage club by Ms. Ardia. He was greeted by his friends. They all wanted to hear about the trip he rushed to. But, before he delivered his victory speech the old hag, Ms. Ardia, yelled authoritatively that no one was allowed to fool with Caleb because he felt sore and hurt. Then, he shifted the entire scene. He jerked away from his surrogate parent and fled from the building out into the wilderness.

Ms. Ardia was outraged. Rule number one was violated. Running away fit under a zero tolerance policy. She was highly disrespected, but did not take long to compose herself. She went to calm the kids, and after they were accounted for and commanded the orphans sat on their beds to color and do word search puzzles. After the Red twig kids obeyed the mistress, she ran out the door hollering and screaming at Caleb, who was nowhere to be found. He was slowly running to the top of a small embankment where the weather was nice and no one would ever be.

The bank was made up of dirt and sand and wire bushes and trees. He avoided the wire bushes but smiled at carved memories in several trees. His friends would bring small and big knives and cut their initials into the trees, which they also tried to articulate colorful half-beat designs. It took away some of his frustration to think about playing with the looney friends he always loved. 

He was still staring at a tree when a dog saluted him. He jumped after he heard the dog behind him bark. He looked at it, and he wanted to kick it, and then the mangy animal spun around a couple of times and then sat and barked. Suddenly every thing was not terrible. He tried speaking to the dog, and moved forward to it but the dog snapped and sat back down. So, Caleb kicked and hissed at the mutt and it took off. 

He moved back to where he was a took a seat on a huge stone and started to rest. Then, the dog returned barking some and then sat about ten feet away from Caleb, who admittedly was charmed. "Do you do anything besides bark and follow me around.? Do you want to be my friend? Can you bite good?" Caleb smiled observing the black and white pointer dog that would or would not become his best friend.