“What do you mean he’s unavailable?” Henry asked when upon returning to Oregon two days later, he requested Chief Bowen to contact Crepuscule. However, his RD Chief replied that getting in touch with him right now is presently impossible.
“Sir, have you forgotten?” Chief Bowen reminded him. “After the Puzzle of the Maze breakthrough, he took a month-long vacation. He left not long after you.”
“A vacation? Where to?”
Chief Bowen shrugged, “Undisclosed? We know how he is.”
Henry sighed. “Looks like I have to inform the World President that it can’t be done right away.”
“The World President?”
He nodded. “He wants a meeting and even agreed with the protocols of the Crepuscule Program.”
“That’s hardly surprising.”
True, the innovations he’d brought to the Association over the past two m
