“Mom, I do have school, you know.”

“Oh, please, that doesn’t matter anymore.”

What? How could she say something like that, being the person she was? “I don’t-”

“You’ll understand momentarily,” Sarah interrupted, reaching into her purse. She took out a book titled:

Special Relativity:
The Time Contraction

“We’re going to have to measure the speed of that rock,” she said, gesturing the rock that he had miraculously managed to keep within his clutch.

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