Sixteen-year-old Nyx lives hidden in his grandmother’s attic in Norfolk, MA—skin black as midnight, silver, light-sensitive eyes, and a mind that hears the harmonies between electricity, thought, and light. After anonymously acing an elite maths exam, he’s discovered by MIT’s Dr. Evelyn Ives and caseworker Jess Harper. Nyx doesn’t force systems—he listens so deeply they move to meet him. When a massive solar storm threatens global collapse, Nyx proposes a radical plan: a synchronized three-minute global “Quiet Hour,” asking humanity to dim together so the surge slides past. It works. In the aftermath, Nyx leads a movement—energy as relationship, darkness as rest, habit over miracle—culminating in a live Great Dome speech that becomes a new civic ritual.