School, it turned out, was Daniel's medium.
She'd wondered. He'd been dominant in nursery — she knew that, the teachers had communicated it in the gentle, diplomatic way of people managing a child whose personality exceeded the available space — and she'd wondered whether actual school would be different. Whether there would be friction. Whether five years of very particular confidence would need adjustment in an environment with more structure and more people.
It did not need adjustment.
He came home on the fourth day and told her about his teacher, Professora Andreia, with the considered tone of someone providing a professional reference. "She knows a lot," he said. "But she asks questions like she doesn't know, which is better."
"Why is that better?"
"Because then you have to figur
