насчет "two or three" афтар загнул, но это шикарно.
"...She approached him, once. He was sitting on the ground with his backpack and journal, staring bleakly at the pages, going over equations that no longer meant anything. He solved them in his head easily enough, but knew they wouldn't ever matter. All his years of work, nullified with a few flashes of light —
It was only when he went to place his journal back in his bag that he realized there was a little girl seated on the ground nearby, rifling through his things."
нет, я в порядке, в порядке, в порядке