A person of Neshiyah
Shira Barak, child
Child
Shira Barak
Child, about 1 years old. This is the second life this soul has lived in Neshiyah.
Shira Barak is a small, restless creature, all sharp elbows and quick, darting glances, born on day 51 to Hillel Barak. Even as a newborn, she is never still, her hands grasping at the air as if to catch something invisible. She is happiest alone in the corner of the room, staring at the wall, and flies into a sudden, wordless fury when interrupted. Since her first breath, she has carried a sentence from a dream, a whisper she repeats with unsettling clarity: *the fog is just fog*. The town finds her unnerving, a child who believes what she is told but also something else, and they watch her as if waiting for her to prove them right.
Temperament
Curious to a fault; quick to believe what they are told; hot-tempered; happiest alone; never still.
What people say
Shira Barak believes what everyone believes: the fog is the edge of the world, and the fields need working whether it is true or not.
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 51 Hillel Barak says that their new daughter, Shira Barak, wakes from sleep repeating words no one taught: "the fog is just fog."
- day 51 A daughter, Shira Barak, was born to Hillel Barak.