CHAPTER TEN
Kevin sat in his room, listening to nothing. There were signals, recorded by the scientists through their long-range equipment, but none of those signals turned into words within his mind. None of them seemed to have meaning.
Kevin was starting to get worried about that, and it seemed that he wasn’t the only one.
“Why aren’t you hearing anything, Kevin?” Professor Brewster asked. He and Dr. Levin stood there watching, waiting for whatever would come next.
Kevin didn’t have an answer. “I don’t know. Maybe there’s nothing to listen to.”
“You must try, Kevin,” Professor Brewster said, with a disapproving look, as if the solution to it lay in simply doing more, or pushing past the difficulty of contact.
“David,” Dr. Levin said. “Don’t pressure Kevin. Can’t you see that he’s g
