Instead of dwelling on what he didn’t know and what might happen. Skater went inside himself the way his grandfather had taught him. Andrew Ghost-step had been a hard man, and not one easy to get close to. He’d been a leader in his community, and his daughter’s excesses hadn’t been easily put aside. Skater hadn’t learned until later that when his mother abandoned him to her parents, many of his grandfather’s political and personal friendships within the tribe had withered and not recovered.