Flashes of Fancy by heget  

Slope Intercepts

Prompt: binomial, chocolate, world, tree

Daeron/Durin

“If I write the binomial out, I can compare the slopes and find where to add the next gate - the sluice mechanics in the Thirty-Fifth Wing might be small enough to retrofit into the space. Construction cannot continue until I solve this problem, or we face a world of complications and setbacks.” Durin chewed at the end of his stylus.

Daeron doodled a tree in the margins of his own notes, writing mathematical equations above each branch for the angles, perfectly accurate for all he seemed to eyeball. “Remember when your mathematics were simply dividing chocolates? Alas, maturity suits you.”