A person of Neshiyah
Rivka Raz, network technician
Network technician
Rivka Raz
Network technician, about 80 years old. Born in Neshiyah, like everyone.
Rivka Raz sits at the junction board in the town's single switch room, fingers moving across patched cables with the patience of someone who has seen every wire fail twice. They are small, grey, dressed in a wool cardigan over a work shirt, and they hum a tune with no source while re-terminating a connector. Their habit is to test every line twice, then once more, because certainty is a comfort. What they want is to finish the day's log without a single discrepancy. The town sees them as the quiet one, the one who never argues, the one who once held a black seed in an open palm and simply said, "Well, that's new." Then they went back to work.
Temperament
Curious to a fault; quick to believe what they are told; even-tempered; happiest alone; able to sit still when it matters.
What people say
Rivka Raz 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 42 Rivka Raz and Hadassah Barak talked a long while at the square.
- day 42 Rivka Raz, the network technician, died at 80, of old age. In their last days people said they were asleep.
- day 37 Rivka Raz the network technician was handed a seed a bird carried out of the fog, from no plant in the town's reference list.
- day 34 Rivka Raz the network technician found a seventh stone block in the quarry, where the survey lists six.
- day 28 A guard at the end of the south road turned Rivka the younger back at the fog line with a reminder that the Council prefers people to stay at their work.
Rivka Raz died on day 42.
People on this page
Hadassah Barak