"A shadow that is not here is not a shadow that is not." – the Reader-Major, on the one person she cannot read
FIELD REPORT – Ferdinand Lusk REPORT 12 OF 14 SUBJECT: Oda Vint; the blank page; a request to the Bureau She was born in the dormitory at the bottom of the Rows at the stroke of noon nineteen years ago, in the Four Minutes, with the Preacher at the door, and she has never cast a shadow. Not been cut: never cast one. She came into the world during the one interval in which the city holds no record of anyone, and the record never caught up with her. The Ledger has no line for her. I have seen the page. In the third volume, between two entries in the Registrar's hand, there is a page with nothing on it, which he keeps clean and turns when he passes, and which he showed me without my asking, as if he had been waiting for someone to ask. By the fifth article she is nothing: she cannot sign, own, testify or leave, and nobody is obliged to answer her. By the same article she has never owed anything to anyone, and the Preacher says that this makes her the only free person in Gnomon, and she ...
From the lore of The Ledger of Shadows.