A person of Neshiyah
Gad Segal, child
Child
Gad Segal
Child, about 0 years old. This is the third life this soul has lived in Neshiyah.
Gad Segal is not yet a year old, and already the town knows him as the child who talks in his sleep. He wakes from his cot repeating a sentence no one taught him—*the fog is just fog*—and then lies quiet, staring at the ceiling with an attention that makes his mother, Shiloh, check the window. In the daylight he is all motion: red-faced, demanding, quick to laugh and quicker to cry, always held or carried or propped beside someone. He prefers the riverbank, where the water moves and the fog sits low. At work, the women who mind him note how his eyes track the mist as if measuring it. He wants to touch everything. The town watches him sideways, and remembers the fine Zev Eshel paid for trying to measure the fog.
Temperament
Curious to a fault; quick to believe what they are told; hot-tempered; always in company; given to sitting by the river.
What people say
Gad 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 62 Guard Gad Segal fined Zev Eshel for measuring the fog.
- day 61 Shiloh Segal says that their new son, Gad Segal, wakes from sleep repeating words no one taught: "the fog is just fog."
- day 61 A son, Gad Segal, was born to Shiloh Segal.
People on this page
Zev Eshel
Shiloh Segal