The next morning, his teacher asked a question about Newton’s Second Law that usually left the room silent. Anton didn't look at his notes. He looked at the air, seeing the invisible forces he’d met in the pages the night before.
"Force equals mass times acceleration," he said, his voice steady. "But it’s the why that matters." The next morning, his teacher asked a question
Thirteen-year-old Anton carried them home as if they were made of glass. The first book was the theory, sleek and dense; the second was the workbook, filled with the kind of problems that looked like riddles from a different dimension. The next morning