colors, a bad dream, the story, how, remembering
- Julia brings some brand new paint in a variety of colors so that she and Ivan can create new works of art.
- Ivan is mesmerized watching her work, and she introduces him to finger paint, which Ivan promptly tries to eat, though he soon delights in his new technique.
- Ruby isn't sleeping well.
- She misses Stella and is worried that Mack will never forgive her for knocking him down with her trunk.
- Ivan distracts her with some of the new art work, and adds the phrase artistic license to her growing vocabulary.
- Ruby is eager to hear more stories now that Ivan is starting to divulge a little.
- Bob told her that Ivan is going to "save her" and she wants to know if that's true.
- Is she going to live her entire life in this domain like her Aunt Stella did?
- Ivan tells her she won't if he can helps it, and also that what she lives in isn't a domain—it's a cage.
- Looks like Ivan is starting to change his tune.
- Ivan tells Ruby a story—which he says is true—about a brave little elephant that gets a new place to live.
- This new place is called a zoo, and it's a lot safer than living at the mall.
- Ruby wants to know how this baby elephant in the story gets to the zoo, and Ivan tells her that a friend makes it happen.
- Bob and Ivan discuss how Ivan can keep his promise to Stella to save Ruby from this unnatural life.
- Ivan doesn't sleep that night, thinking about his promise.
- Suddenly, he's flooded with memories of his childhood.