"He ran away, Maggie." her brother insisted for the hundredth time.
"I don't believe you," she pouted, folding her arms across her skinny chest. Rob stomped off to the rest of his chores, cringing at his sister's plaintive cry ringing out behind him. "Tell the truth! What happened to my dog?"
"He ran away, didn't he? Now lemme be!"
But he lied. Maggie knew it was a lie, even before she stumbled across the little patch of fresh-turned earth a little ways into the field.