He smiled. Not a tired smile. A real one.
Then came the Project.
"Good work," he said. And he handed me an A+. He smiled
For a week, I was a god. I accessed coding tutorials, archived newspapers, even a live feed of a puffin nest in Iceland (for science). I kept a low profile. No YouTube. No games. Just the stuff the filter was too stupid to understand. He smiled
I remembered a random forum post from a deep corner of the internet: . He smiled