(Caroline's POV)
Dr. Dane's office feels smaller than it did twenty minutes ago. Or maybe it's just that the information he's given us is taking up all the space.
Charlie sits in the corner, completely absorbed in a puzzle he found on Dr. Dane's shelf—a complex spatial reasoning puzzle meant for children twice his age. He solved it in under three minutes and is now taking it apart just to put it back together again.
"The results are clear," Dr. Dane says, leaning forward in his chair. He's got that particular energy that doctors get when they find something genuinely exciting—the kind of enthusiasm that's usually reserved for groundbreaking research. "Charlie's mathematical aptitude is extraordinary. We're not talking about above average, or even gifted. We're talking about something ra
