Salander was brought a simple lunch at noon and spent the next hour solving equations in her head.
She focused on an area of spherical astronomy from a book she had read two years earlier.
At 2:30 she was led back to the interrogation cell and pondered a particularly intricate equation.
After ten minutes the door opened.
"Hello Lisbeth." A friendly tone. It was Teleborian.
He smiled at her, and she froze. The components of the equation she had constructed in the air before her came tumbling to the ground. She could hear the numbers and mathematical symbols bouncing and clattering as if they had physical form.
