The Boy Without Echoes

Three days after Vesper's prophetic dream, the child who had caused universal panic had achieved something that challenged every known law of cosmic development: he had become forgettable.

Not forgettable in the sense of being unremarkable—though his absolute ordinariness remained the most extraordinary thing about him—but forgettable in the literal sense that the universe itself seemed incapable of maintaining a permanent record of his existence. The emerald networks that had monitored his birth showed no trace of the event. The medical records that had documented his impossible normality contained blank spaces where his data should have been. The Balance Keepers who had spent three days analyzing his implications would begin discussions about containment protocols, pause in the middle of sentences, and ask each other what they had been talking about.