The disappearance of Alfarius left more than a deathly silence in the central courtyard of the Academy of Heroes. It left a gap. A real and absolute one that defied the visual perception of the survivors. The space where the tactical mathematics professor had been stripped of his existence remained warped, covered by residues of Hawking radiation and white particles that floated slowly like luminous ash suspended in an invisible fluid. Fragments of incomplete formulas, geometric representations of spatial tensors and remains of his probabilistic calculation systems appeared and disappeared erratically in the area, like echoes of a consciousness that refused to be completely erased from the fabric of reality.
