Chapter 57‘YOU BE GOOD, AND take care of both Lola and Grankin,’ said Heather, as she held Pedro’s shoulders in each of her hands.
Pedro had really taken to old man Shuskin, just as the old man had accepted, willingly and with pleasure, his new role as protector, friend, and companion to the young boy. At some point, Pedro had started to call the old man Grandpa Shuskin, then Grandkin, and later he shortened it to Grankin. Heather liked the nickname, as she had always felt it was a bit derogatory to call him “Old Man” or by his surname “Shuskin.”
The old phantom of the woods, the ghost many never saw, who mumbled and refused to talk or associate with people, had been transformed. At first through a simple act of kindness—seeing something good in Nusmen that no one else saw—then with a go
