Give her another day to live, and she'll show the programmers who's the boss around here. She'll show that she is the most clever girl in this island that she was able to see through the laughs, and the shouts of her friends.
Well, they were friends. They were friends! Were is a past tense! Past tense needed to be used whenever she think or talked about these people.
Forty two minus forty one, right? That is a simply mathematical problem that required barely a second to answer. One, that was it. It wasn't that hard, wasn't it? She just needed to write the answer, the word and pull the trigger to get the answer she needed.