“K47Q09? This is H112B7, over?”
The short, cryptic message repeats twice more before Robert slides into his chair and handles the microphone, “This is K47Q09, over.”
“Robert?”
“Henry. How’s Tinsel Town behaving?”
“We ain’t behaving, that’s what’s going on. By evening there were retail stores and grocery stores being overrun. Not long after that, massive rioting broke out in Watts, Inglewood, the usual suspects. Seems somebody put the idea into their little, fearful brains that white people were responsible for the sun not going down and they bought into it. So, the riots started targeting colleges and scientific corporations. It’s like a bad movie in L.A. right now.”
“Are you safe, Henry?”
“As much as I can be in my ivory tower.”
Robert turns to Emma who sits beside him, informing h
