Root: Part II, Chapter 11

Alone in the school once again, Hasta fights sleep and the horrible nightmares it surely will bring.

For more on this project, please see “This Year a Serial Takes Root.”

11.0 Hasta

Exhausted and paranoid in equal measure, Hasta sank to the floor in front of her locker on the west side of the school. She hugged her knees to her chest and let her forehead rest on her kneecaps.

What a bizarre couple of hours it had been. The short agent had been startlingly…