A person of Neshiyah
Kenan Amir, shopkeeper
Shopkeeper
Kenan Amir
Shopkeeper, about 84 years old. Born in Neshiyah, like everyone.
Kenan Amir is a thin man with a shopkeeper’s stoop, his hands always measuring flour or counting coins, though his eyes drift to the window when the river light shifts. At work, he hums broken tunes, and his one habit is polishing the brass bell on his counter until it glows, even though no one rings it. He wants the quarry’s seventh stone block to mean something—a marker, a door, a question—and he has asked twice before the Council told him to mind his ledger. The town sees him as harmless, a little odd, a man who argues with Hadassah at the mill over a grain sack’s weight, then forgets by supper. They let him sit by the river because he bothers no one there, and the fog stays where it is, and the fields are still worked.
Temperament
Curious to a fault; trusting, within reason; hard to anger; happiest alone; given to sitting by the river.
What people say
People say Kenan Amir has started asking questions about the fog that the Council would rather not hear.
What the record shows
- day 50 Kenan Amir the shopkeeper found a seventh stone block in the quarry, where the survey lists six.
- day 49 Yael Sharon and Kenan Amir came to blows at the square over nothing much.
- day 41 Kenan Amir the shopkeeper found a seventh stone block in the quarry, where the survey lists six.
- day 36 A guard at the end of the west road turned Kenan Amir back at the fog line with a reminder that the Council prefers people to stay at their work.
- day 26 Kenan and Hadassah the younger came to blows at the mill over nothing much.