Mateo closed his laptop. The next morning, he bought the hardcover. He passed the midterm with a B+. And the USB drive with the cursed PDF? He left it in the copier room basement, where, they say, it still downloads itself onto the laptops of students who search for shortcuts at 2 AM.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, a tiny glitch: a footnote he'd never noticed appeared under Table 13.3. It read: "For the love of Avogadro, buy the damn book. — R. Chang (probably)"
Mateo laughed nervously. "That's ridiculous."