Serum

-Sixty-One-

This was never going to work.

And the wait was interminable.

“Ok, so..” I said to distract myself, flipping over in the snow outside the building where Lana worked. “You said it can take months for the Dart to reform. BUT it only took days for it to form when you went into Rut, you know.. before..” Conner shot me a look.

“You want to do this here? Now?” Conner asked incredulously. I shrugged.

“What else can we do? She’ll be at work at least a few more hours. We’re just mapping her routine right now. It’s not like there’s anything to do but talk..” I watched him as he slowly lowered his hands from the camera that he’d set up on a short tripod. On the hill next to us human children raced each other on sleds downward and then huffed their way through the climb back up. I watched them as I