Jevon’s POV

When Nydia carefully slid that math problem toward me, my heart sank.

Forget solving it. The moment I saw that long string of symbols and formulas, my skull started buzzing.

I could hear prey breathing from hundreds of meters away in the forest.

Too bad none of that helped when I was staring at cold, dead numbers.

I had only written one line of the geometric proof when my head began to throb faintly.

I couldn’t show weakness. I cleared my throat twice and forced myself to sound calm.

“I haven’t looked at 11th‑grade algebra for a long time. Let me study it for a moment.”

Nydia waved...