Fractured Strands

I watch Naiara as her finger runs over the DNA strands. She’s so smart that sometimes I forget that she didn’t go to medical school as I did. She has taken to medicine and to helping these kids like she was made for it, which, of course, she wasn’t. A dragon should be in the sky, not in a laboratory on the ground pouring over lab results, but here she is.

“I’m not exactly sure what I’m looking at,