A person of Neshiyah
Devorah Segal, child
Child
Devorah Segal
Child, about 13 years old. This is the second life this soul has lived in Neshiyah.
Devorah Segal is a small, serious child with smudges of soil perpetually on her knees and a habit of touching the fog-bank wall when she thinks no one is watching, as if testing a lie. She works the cabbage rows beside her father, Elam, kneeling without complaint, her fingers neat and patient among the roots, though her eyes wander to the white horizon. The town sees her as Elam’s quiet one, friendly but distant, humming a phrase she cannot explain. She wants to walk past the wall, just once, to see if the world keeps going. Everyone smiles at that, gently. They do not ask what she whispers to the cabbages.
Temperament
Curious to a fault; quick to believe what they are told; even-tempered; friendly enough; able to sit still when it matters.
What people say
Devorah 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 39 Elam Segal says that their new daughter, Devorah Segal, wakes from sleep repeating words no one taught: "the fog is just fog."
- day 39 A daughter, Devorah Segal, was born to Elam Segal.