As the girl begins to seem overwhelmed, a bell rings and the children part, running and screaming inside to get to breakfast first so they can get the food they want. Adoption Centers don't have good funding; centers for abandoned cats have more funding than these places, which is stupid in Ectun's opinion. He drops off of the wall and as he walks inside, he says without looking at the girl: "You'll get used to it, trust me. You probably won't be here that long anyway."
It's true. The cute girls or the young energetic boys are always adopted quickly, leaving the old, scraggy ones for the autumn and winter months. Ectun is energetic for sure but he has been there 2 years and nobody has adopted him. The social services now let him go to school even though he's up for adoption so he doesn't fall behind on his education which means that they think he will be there until he is not eligible for adoption anymore.
As he enters the front room to see the children gathered around the table, with two seats next to each other spare. Ectun sits on one of the seats and looks around, sensing a presence that the other children seemed to have not picked up on yet. He sits up in a more straight manner for the presence he senses.