Dustin looked at his ruined shirt, then at Sheldon. A slow, terrifying smile spread across his face. But it wasn’t a smile of anger. It was… respect.
“Chaos theory,” she muttered.
The morning sun cast long, sharp shadows across the dry Texas lawn of the Coopers’ house. Inside, Sheldon Cooper, aged ten, was not enjoying his breakfast. He was dissecting it.
“You’re dead, brainiac,” Dustin rumbled.
The duel, Sheldon explained, would not be with fists. That was primitive. It would be with slingshots. A contest of physics, precision, and nerve. He had even drafted a liability waiver. George Sr., caught between exasperation and a faint, reluctant pride, helped him build the weapon: a forked branch from the old pecan tree, surgical tubing from Mary’s emergency kit, and a leather pouch cut from an old belt.
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