A person of Neshiyah
Batsheva Segal, child
Child
Batsheva Segal
Child, about 4 years old. This is the second life this soul has lived in Neshiyah.
Batsheva Segal is two years old, with a round face that goes still when she watches the river, which is often. She sits on the bank with her knees drawn up, not throwing stones, just looking at the water's slow bend as if it owes her an answer. She has a habit of touching the ground before she trusts a new step, palm flat against the dirt, testing. The town sees her as Elam's quiet girl, the one who hums to herself in the mill yard while the other children shout. She wants the fog to lift, though she cannot say why. She believes it is the edge of the world, and also that it is not.
Temperament
Curious to a fault; slow to believe anyone; even-tempered; always in company; given to sitting by the river.
What people say
Batsheva Segal 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 48 Elam Segal says that their new daughter, Batsheva Segal, wakes from sleep repeating words no one taught: "the fog is just fog."
- day 48 A daughter, Batsheva Segal, was born to Elam Segal.