The mother's treatment was not going well, and the child was silent except for the regular clicking of plastic hooves up the ramp of the ark. He considers telling her Noah's story but thinks the better of it. Let her play undisturbed with the toy boat. The story echoes the environment that this child has come from. Once more she lines up the plastic animals to parade into the ark.
Home is where animals want to be.
Home is where all God's creatures long to be. Her emphatic tone makes something else clear as well. This place, this shelter is not home. Though it is clean and well lit, though meals are thoughtfully prepared and supervised by a dietician, though she has received new blue jeans and clean socks, though no one hurts her here, this place, this shelter is not home. He wonders to himself where is home for this child.