Chapter 31 Summary

Taylor goes alone to Annawake's office and finds Cash there with her. They discuss their own two stories and Annawake explains the law that applies. Cash shows Taylor a picture of Turtle as a baby, which does not help, but he also shows her a picture of Turtle's mother when she was the age that Turtle is now and Taylor knows, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Turtle is Cash's granddaughter. She is terrified that she might lose her and Annawake and Cash can see how devoted she is to the little girl. She tells them that she has realized that she should not keep her away from her own people.

Then Alice and Turtle come into the office. Turtle looks at Cash and runs to him, calling him "Pop-Pop," the name she had used for him when he and his wife...