Drabble 50
The scientist’s work was done. He labored all day and night, at times allowing only one to two hours of sleep. He then turned on the machine he had invented. It hummed him to his needed sleep.
Days passed before the machine’s humming was heard by his neighbors. They tried calling out but, receiving no response, they opened the unlocked door. The place was empty. They wondered where the scientist went. They then destroyed the machine for they didn’t know how to turn it off.
“Foolish people,” the scientist may have said while he was transported to a distant planet.