Beautiful!

Then he'd discovered algebra and calculus. Numbers were clearer, simpler, more fundamentally *true*. He didn't have the words to describe the sharp chill of a winter breeze striking his face, but he had the numbers to detail its velocity, direction and wind-chill.

Just. Wow. So totally John. :) This is one of those lovely fics that makes me heave a big happy sigh at the end.