Tian Jaffords's ancient, nearly toothless grandfather - now reduced to a state of dribbling reminiscence the family treats with the mixed affection and inattention such states usually attract. What everyone in the household has forgotten, until Roland's ka-tet starts asking the right kinds of questions, is that Gran-pere has been carrying a piece of family history since his own grandfather's time that turns out to be unexpectedly relevant to the question of what, exactly, the Wolves are.