Title: Mathematical Precision
Fandom: Elementary
Rating: Teen
Length: 112
Content notes: Spoilers for S1
Author notes: For fan-flashworks for the "Arithmetic" challenge.
Summary: Moriarty's thoughts on the general stupidity of the species. Hints at Sherlock/Moriarty.



It angers her, almost, that the rest of the world can’t do the simplest arithmetic.

Yes, she can spin complex webs of lies and plots, she can devise strategies that surpass any mere chess master’s or general’s. But the most ingenious equations ever discovered can be expressed as an arrangement of simple operations, performed in just the right way and in just the right order.

Locate weakness. Apply pressure. Extract value. Clean up.

Simple.

There’s no excuse for those who can’t see it, and so no mercy is deserved.

(Uniqueness, she knows, is a more difficult mathematical property to grasp. Does it make a difference, if she is not the only one?)