One afternoon, Erin could not take it anymore. She picked up the new girl, carried her outside and strapped her to a tree. The new girl didn't say very much after that day. There is an ongoing rivalry throughout the entire term. The first activity on the first night of each term is tribe drawings.
New campers draw either a blue slip of paper or a red slip out of a hat.
The blue paper means you are a Kiowa, while the red means you are a Tonkawa. On my first night, I was extremely nervous. As the daughter and the niece of two fellow Mystic campers, I knew I could not pick wrong since one was a Tonk and the other was a Kiowa. However, I really wanted to be a Tonk, like my mother. When it was my turn to draw, I was relieved to see the shiny red scrap of paper.