Fate is not without friends. Sitting alone on a sunny day Bunson Bear is to find this out. The intrusion of a temporal tinkerer is not an unwelcome one to the eight-year-old bear. Bunson, having lost his best pal Topper still grieves greatly. Of the visitor, a formal introduction is begun while Bunson sleeps. At first Bunson does not know that anyone has arrived. Much smaller than himself, even if Bunson were awake he could not be blamed for missing the little ones entrance. It is not until the entrant speaks that Bunson knows that he has made a new friend, and know he does for the sound of the speaker is unmistakable. The sounds he makes are not words but they do communicate and they say much. Bunson fully awakens and sees who is before himself and instantly knows what The Good Lord demands of him. Bunson's new friend is a kitten. A little cow kitten, black and white all over and the little one is hungry. Someone unseen has placed this little life in Bunson's paws to care for and nurture. Bunson went to sleep quite alone in the world and woke up with a gift. A special gift, one of friendship and all that the gift of friendship entails. Responsibility, diligence and trust. These things and more Bunson must give to the little one he will name Freddy.

Yet, that was but one day. Another day will come. A time will come when Bunson will not be able to help Freddy. It will be a matter of seconds but within those seconds lives will change. The fallout from those ticks of time are to be ingrained on several souls, then even more in the fallout of the evening as it wears itself on.