Root: Part II, Chapter 9

While Hasta probes LaVell’s strange amnesia and tries to bring him up to speed, Lamm takes another unprecedented and perilous step toward transformation.

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

9.0 Hasta

“Please,” said LaVell, hugging himself. “I just want to go home. My parents will be worried sick.”

In the dark classroom, Hasta stood at the window and scoped the front grounds. Here came the tall agent once again, a shambling shadow in the rain, relentless in his circuit of th…