I watch Kaylani as her finger runs over the DNA strands. She’s so smart, sometimes I forget that she didn’t go to medical school like I did. She has taken to medicine and helping these kids like she was made for it, which of course she wasn’t. A dragon should be in the sky, not on the ground, in a laboratory, pouring over test tubes. But here she is.
“I’m not exactly sure what I’m looking at Everett,” she says, turning her head so those sapphire eyes lock onto mine. I get lost in her jeweled eyes, wondering what it would be like to know that she was mine forever.
“Everett?”
I shake my head, refocusing on Elio.
“Hang on, this might help,” I say, clicking a couple more buttons on the computer and then going to stand beside her.
“This is Elio’s human DNA,” I say, pointing to the blue str
