A person of Neshiyah
Ezra Sharon, child
Child
Ezra Sharon
Child, about 17 years old. This is the second life this soul has lived in Neshiyah.
Ezra Sharon is small for nine, with dirt perpetually under their nails and a cowlick that refuses to lie flat. At work in the turnip rows, they pause mid-hoe to watch a beetle cross a clod, then finish the row without being reminded. Their habit is counting steps—always aloud, under their breath, from one to a hundred, then starting over. They want a dog, specifically a brindle one, and have asked every adult in town twice. The fog never bothers them; they look at it the way other children look at a fence. The town finds them odd but gentle, the kind of child who will sit through a sermon without fidgeting, and who once told old Marta, “The fog is just fog,” with such calm certainty that she checked her own windows twice.
Temperament
Curious to a fault; trusting, within reason; hard to anger; friendly enough; able to sit still when it matters.
What people say
Ezra Sharon 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 49 Ezra Sharon and Dinah Kedem came to blows at the square over nothing much.
- day 38 Ezra Sharon the child fell ill with the valley fever and lost three days to it.
- day 35 Tobiah Sharon says that their new daughter, Ezra Sharon, wakes from sleep repeating words no one taught: "the fog is just fog."
- day 35 A daughter, Ezra Sharon, was born to Tobiah Sharon.