- Lone returns to the Prodd farm, seeing the bogged-down truck and Mr. Prodd on the porch, looking dazed.
- The two exchange greetings. Mr. Prodd seems dazed, and Lone reminds him to husk the corn.
- Mr. Prodd sighs and says he'll get to it and that he's never missed a milking.
- Lone sees dirty dishes and flies inside the house. He remembers about Jack and says, "The baby come."
- Mr. Prodd says the baby has, and seems to forget what he's saying. He calls for Mrs. Prodd to fix Lone food and strangely says she'll hear a yell that's loud enough.
- Lone probes Mr. Prodd's mind, but hurriedly takes his telepathy away as he senses something wrong. Uh-oh. Not Ho-ho or He-hee.
- Lone says he came to return the ax and asks Mr. Prodd if he wants help getting the corn in. They get it in. After a while of working, they have old food and lemonade with dead flies in it. Yuck.
- Lone frees the truck again.
- Mr. Prodd takes him to Jack's room., where he shows Lone a strange-looking baby with dirty clothes in the bassinet.
- The farmer says the boy isn't Jack, and that Mrs. Prodd has gone searching for him. Mr. Prodd says the doctor calls the baby a mongoloid who won't grow much larger and needs special treatments in the city.
- Lone probes Mr. Prodd with his eyes and discovers what things the farmer needs done, and takes care of those things.
- The farmer promises Mrs. Prodd will get back and feed him. Lone tells him to fix the door and promises he'll return.
- Lone, heading for the shelter, thinks about loneliness versus belonging. He realizes the Prodds were one thing alone, and then became a different thing with him as part of their unit. He realizes something similar has happened with him taking the three youths in.
- He still feels alone, however, and feels that Janie and the twins are alone as well. He wonders if the Prodds were not alone when they were together, and decides he couldn't know about that. He feels terribly unique, but decides it is somehow helpful to know that.