CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
Chapter 55: Dolios - Brain operating @ 5.2 times normal human speed
Five years later:
Melpomene put little Dolios to sleep with a fairy tale. It was his favourite tale, a story about a prince who was locked at the top of a tower, cursed by a witch to speak too fast.
The prince had to work one night, and he didn’t have time to read all of the necessary books for his important meeting with a diplomat from another land. He complained about it out loud. “Oh, what I wouldn’t give so I could read faster!” So a witch suddenly appeared to him and said, “I can make you read faster.”
“How?” the prince asked.
“By magic, of course. Do you agree to it?”
The prince thought about it. He glanced at the pile of books beside him, then at the cuckoo clock on the wall, and said, “I a
