Root: Part III, Chapter 4

While Hasta negotiates a tense stand-off with an eerily transformed foe, Lamm pays an involuntary visit to White Castle and expresses his frustration with A.A.

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

4.0 Hasta

Ivan had vanished, but the tip of Hasta’s finger seemed to skitter around like it was pressed to the blade of an electric fan. This definitely did not feel like a perfect shot.

Nauseated and wrung out, Hasta ducked behind the car again. She peeked out at the building through th…