“OH MY GOD. OH MY God. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.”
“Ken?” says Dan, hurrying over to my side.
“Is he having a heart attack?” asks John Henry Knox. “It appears he’s having a heart attack.”
Edsley, being Edsley, assumes that my flipping out is all about his feat of robotic reprogramming.
“Hold up, Ken,” he says. “I know it’s crazy amazing, but you can’t die yet. I haven’t even shown you the coolest thing I programmed Klaus to do.”
“He’s not having a heart attack,” Mikaela assures everyone.
She comes closer to me, her eyes narrowed and trained on mine the entire time.
“You’ve realized something, haven’t you?” she says. “You’ve got an idea. About how we can save the planet.”
I run it through my head again, just to make sure.
Then, confidently, I nod.