A person of Neshiyah
Yarden Zohar, nurse
Nurse
Yarden Zohar
Nurse, about 85 years old. Born in Neshiyah, like everyone.
Yarden Zohar moved through the sickroom with the economy of someone who had long stopped counting the steps, their fingers checking a pulse the way other hands tested bread. At eighty-five, they were still first to the mill when someone coughed blood, last to leave the kitchen at night, always in company yet never quite still—folding cloth, sharpening a blade, watching the fog line with a rangefinder that never agreed with itself. People said they died asleep, and that seemed right, because Yarden had always been the one who woke first. What they wanted, quietly, was for the north post to measure true once, just once, in either direction. The town called them stubborn and trusted them utterly.
Temperament
Curious when something is in front of them; slow to believe anyone; even-tempered; always in company; never still.
What people say
Yarden Zohar 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 43 Yarden Zohar, the nurse, died at 85, of old age. In their last days people said they were asleep.
- day 42 Yarden Zohar went back to the north edge with a camera and it happened again.
- day 42 Yarden Zohar the nurse measured the distance from the north survey post to the fog with a rangefinder and got two different answers, 212 meters going out and 196 coming back.
- day 39 Yarden Zohar and Levi Erez came to blows at the mill over nothing much.
- day 38 Micah Kfir and Yarden Zohar talked a long while at the mill.
Yarden Zohar died on day 43.
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Levi Erez
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