A person of Neshiyah
Levi Erez, nurse
Nurse
Levi Erez
Nurse, about 25 years old. This is the second life this soul has lived in Neshiyah.
Levi Erez moves through the clinic like water finding its level, unhurried, their hands steady on a dressing or a pulse. At seventeen they have a nurse’s patience, a stillness that makes the feverish calm down. Their one habit is to sit by the river after shift, bread crust in pocket, watching the current take the light, and they come back from those hours quieter than before, not sad, just settled. The town has noticed that Levi now asks about the fog’s edge with a flat, polite curiosity that makes the Council uneasy. People say Levi is slow to believe anyone, and it is true: they trust only what they have measured. But they want to know if the instruments can be wrong, and they want to know who built the river. The town sees a boy who is kind, and who carries a sentence from a dream like a stone in a shoe—"the fog is just fog"—and who has not yet decided if it is a comfort or a warning.
Temperament
Content not to ask; slow to believe anyone; even-tempered; happiest alone; given to sitting by the river.
What people say
People say Levi Erez has started asking questions about the fog that the Council would rather not hear.
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 47 Levi Erez and Noam Elon came to blows at the mill over nothing much.
- day 41 Elam Segal and Levi Erez sat a long while at the plaza comparing what they had seen. They talked about what they had each measured, and whether the instruments could be wrong. They did not agree.
- day 40 Ariel Kedem and Levi Erez sat a long while at the plaza comparing what they had seen. They talked about what they had each measured, and whether the instruments could be wrong. They did not agree.
- day 39 Yarden Zohar and Levi Erez came to blows at the mill over nothing much.
- day 33 Levi Erez sat by the Lethe doing nothing and came back quietly sure that this place was made on purpose by someone who is not against us.
- day 27 Levi the younger was born and dreamed a sentence in a voice like their own: "the fog is just fog."