The Path:
He had never liked the name Cobe. The way his luck ran, he grew ready for a change. His chance for revenge stolen, the perpetrators of his entombment deserted their homes as they once abandoned him, and he was not happy about it. He left his old home expecting to find the pack of dogs. All he found was the original one-eyed, mangled-eared, gaunt mutt waiting for him.
“From now on, I will call you Lucky, and you can call me Jinx. I am tired of Cobe. Time to have a name I can live up to. If I’ve no luck but bad, I will work hard to be the jinx I appear to be.”
The dog growled deep in his throat. Not sure if that meant good or bad, Jinx took it to be good. If he was going to be insane, he might as well make it a happy kind of crazy. Miserable for the first part of his life, time
