As Bennet joins Creighton in Lucknow and the Lama continues his journey towards Benares with the crow, Kim is locked up in a Military Orphanage – a gloomy fortress enclosed by high walls. Kim is forced to wear a tattered grey uniform which makes him looks like a little prisoner; he bites the hand of the supervisor he’s been entrusted to and tries to escape. The Headmaster blows into his whistle. The guards chase Kim across the courtyard. Kim gives them a hard time, but he is finally captured and put into punishment. Two days of solitary confinement in a dark cell crowded with mice and without any food.