A person of Neshiyah
Gavriel Dagan, plumber
Plumber
Gavriel Dagan
Plumber, about 85 years old. Born in Neshiyah, like everyone.
Gavriel Dagan’s hands were the color of old lead pipe, and he talked to the fittings he replaced as if they might answer. He worked slow, with a patience that let him sit cross-legged on a kitchen floor for an hour, just watching a slow drip. He believed what he was told, especially about the fog being the edge of the world, and he saw no reason to doubt it. His habit was to whistle one incomplete bar of a hymn while he tightened a joint. He wanted to see one more spring planting, though he said it without hope. The town saw him as a fixed point, and when he died in his sleep, they simply noted it.
Temperament
Curious when something is in front of them; quick to believe what they are told; hard to anger; always in company; able to sit still when it matters.
What people say
Gavriel Dagan believes what everyone believes: the fog is the edge of the world, and the fields need working whether it is true or not.
What the record shows
- day 35 Gavriel Dagan, the plumber, died at 85, of old age. In their last days people said they were asleep.
Gavriel Dagan died on day 35.