Chapter 112

Jim’s expression changed as he looked over the mostly empty box, and he held it up for Nathan to read the side. Nathan didn’t understand at first. There was a serial number, some name for what the parts were and what they did, and then what they were made of.

Nathan gasped when his eyes landed on those words. It said: ‘Iron Alloy’.

Iron Alloy

“It’s not pure iron,” Nathan said. “But then why isn’t he waking up? It shouldn’t be that bad. It isn’t iron. He should be okay.”

“Maybe it’s not that simple.” Jim walked back to Nathan and crouched down again with sorrowful eyes cast on Sasha. “Iron to the heart would have killed him. An alloy still has iron in it, just diluted. That might still be enough to…” Jim’s eyes flicked up, meeting Nathan’s steadily. “Enough to put him in a coma.”

“But...we used the antidote.”