A person of Neshiyah
Amos Gefen, child
Child
Amos Gefen
Child, about 4 years old. This is the second life this soul has lived in Neshiyah.
Amos Gefen is four, with river-mud on their knees most days and a way of squatting by the water like a small heron. They watch the current, not the fog, and when asked what they see, they say, "The fog is just fog," the words quiet, as if reciting something worn smooth. They trot behind Oren to the fields, asking names for stones, for weeds, for the exact color of wet dirt, and they believe each answer instantly, storing it without question. Their one habit is trailing a finger along any wall they pass. What they want is to touch the fog's edge, though they never say so. The town sees them as a steady child, easy in company, no trouble, a little too certain of nothing.
Temperament
Curious when something is in front of them; quick to believe what they are told; hard to anger; always in company; given to sitting by the river.
What people say
Amos Gefen believes what everyone believes: the fog is the edge of the world, and the fields need working whether it is true or not.
The dream
Since the morning they were born they have carried a sentence in a voice like their own: “the fog is just fog.”
What the record shows
- day 56 Oren Gefen says that their new son, Amos Gefen, wakes from sleep repeating words no one taught: "the fog is just fog."
- day 56 A son, Amos Gefen, was born to Oren Gefen.
People on this page
Oren Gefen