'Tuut...Tuut...'
"Hello?"
Silence.
"Hello? Who's there?"
'Beep.'
It is not it. The voice is different. It is not it. The tone sounds off, the way he pronunces the '-lo' at the end of hel-lo carries off a different enunciation, or the lack of it. Not quite the same. This is not it. Let me try a different number.
It has been 4716 days. Since I started looking. Since I started calling. I remember the days I realized I have to start searching. So I started to hit on every random numerical algorithms or the countless carefully calculated set of numbers. I would gather clues from thousands of books, listened to the opinions of 'the masters and mistress', follow their leads as far as I could, one, two, three, no turn around. Let's begin again.