My heart beat about a thousand times per second as I dialed up his number, which I knew from memory. My fingers kept shaking, but I’m not sure why exactly; a sense of massive anxiety had overwhelmed me at that moment. Somewhere, something was wrong in the universe, and I had sensed it subconsciously.
“Hey, skipper,” he replied, sounding as if he had been awake for days. I had never heard him sound so tired in my life.
“Dad, why do you sound so tired?” I asked, concerned.
“Keep this a secret from mom, but I’ve been up for two days straight working on this one robot my boss and I came up with. Would you like to learn more about it?” he asked, sipping presumably coffee in the background.
“Sure, but you need to get some sleep, big fella; stay up another day, and you’ll start to think th
