Toby looked at the pile. Usually, he’d see "Three." Now, he saw: "A handful of crunch-spheres."

Toby was a "Three." It wasn't that he was bad at math; he just couldn't physically perceive anything beyond the number three. When he looked at a dozen donuts, he saw three very large, complicated donuts. When he looked at his five-fingered hand, two of them were just... static.

"My assets!" the man wailed. "They've been turned into adjectives!"

Then he saw the ad: