Cooper had been minding her –– and the ghosts –– own business in town. These days, it was usually better to keep her head down rather than glance up and happen to see past the sleepy mining town’s facade to its even-stranger core. The battle that was simmering to a slow boil would soon affect her, but in the meantime, she just wanted to… keep the peace. Hearing her name, however, was a surprise big enough to make her twist around, eyebrows knit in confusion and apprehension. Her eyes darted quickly over them, surmising that she wasn’t talking to a ghost, but Greendale’s small population quickly allowed her to recognize them. “Hello…?”











