Root: Part II, Chapter 4

A dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the dark leads to an object that's difficult to pick up. But just because you can pick it up, should you?

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

4.0 Hasta

When she realized that Ivan hadn’t seen where Juan had gone either, Hasta tried to slip past him and run back down the black hallway to the stairwell, but Ivan seized her by the arm.

“You told us to yell if we got in trouble,” he hissed in her ear. “Did you hear him yell?”

“Coul…