I was excited to be out in the forest, but I was still just a kid. I didn’t know how to follow Hugo silently and he yelled at me for making noise, scaring the birds away. It doesn’t take long for a child to figure out how quickly the switch in an adult can flip. When you are small and nothing in the world is truly your choice, you learn to read the adults around you so that you can get what you want: their praise, their affection, their love. I began to see that with Hugo there was very little room for error on my part.
