A person of Neshiyah
Avner Gefen, child
Child
Avner Gefen
Child, about 1 years old. This is the second life this soul has lived in Neshiyah.
Avner Gefen is a small, serious child who sits by the river with the patience of someone waiting for a boat that never comes. They have their father’s square hands and a way of watching the water that makes the older men lower their voices. At work—which for a child means carrying tools and holding fence posts—they do not ask why the fog stays, only that the fields get turned. Their one habit is to press a flat stone to their ear before throwing it, as if listening for something inside. The town sees them as quiet, reliable, slightly apart. They want, more than anything, to hear the sentence from their dream said out loud by someone else, just once, in the daylight, where it might mean less.
Temperament
Content not to ask; slow to believe anyone; hard to anger; always in company; given to sitting by the river.
What people say
Avner 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 51 Uriel Gefen says that their new son, Avner Gefen, wakes from sleep repeating words no one taught: "the fog is just fog."
- day 51 A son, Avner Gefen, was born to Uriel Gefen.