A person of Neshiyah
Peleg Kedem, network technician
Network technician
Peleg Kedem
Network technician, about 110 years old. Born in Neshiyah, like everyone.
Peleg Kedem is a thin, wire-tough man of a hundred and eight, with knuckles like walnuts and a squint that never quite trusts what he’s looking at. You’ll find him in the dusty junction room behind the mill, coiling cable with a practiced flick of his wrist, muttering at a splice as if it might talk back. His habit is to tap the side of his nose twice before answering any question, a pause that says he’s weighing your words against the weather. He wants the network to hold steady through the fog, nothing more, nothing less. The town sees him as its restless pulse—always in someone’s doorway, always arguing, always there when a line goes dark. His temper flares and cools like a struck match, and after two fistfights over nothing, folks just shrug and hand him a cup of tea.
Temperament
Curious to a fault; slow to believe anyone; hot-tempered; always in company; never still.
What people say
Peleg Kedem 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 47 Peleg Kedem, the network technician, died at 110, of old age. In their last days people said they were asleep.
- day 33 Peleg Kedem and Boaz Segal came to blows at the mill over nothing much.
- day 28 Peleg and Talia talked a long while at the square.
- day 19 Peleg and Naomi came to blows at the square over nothing much.
Peleg Kedem died on day 47.
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