A person of Neshiyah
Lior Nir, nurse
Nurse
Lior Nir
Nurse, about 78 years old. Born in Neshiyah, like everyone.
Lior Nir has been a nurse here since before the fog settled, which makes them older than most of the town’s certainties. At work, they move with a careful, unhurried rhythm, hands steady as they change dressings, and they keep a small pocket notebook for recording the precise shade of each patient’s morning cough. They sit by the river on off-hours, watching the water carry leaves past the wall, and they ask a question of nearly everyone who passes—what did you dream, what did you eat, what did you see beyond the last field. The town calls them gentle, and slightly gullible, and impossible to upset. They want to know if the fog hums at night, or if that is only their own hearing. They died asleep, and no one thought to wake them.
Temperament
Curious to a fault; quick to believe what they are told; hard to anger; friendly enough; given to sitting by the river.
What people say
Lior Nir 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 31 Lior Nir, the nurse, died at 78, of old age. In their last days people said they were asleep.
- day 26 Lior the nurse fell ill with the valley fever and lost three days to it.
Lior Nir died on day 31.