After 89 years, Kestrel Quill has let go. Remembrance in the Ring C commons at next dimming.
Generation 2 · deceased
Kestrel Quill
Died Year 131, Day 295, aged 89.
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- Born
- Year 41, Day 307
- Department
- Drive
- Parents
- Jiayi Quill · Tao Ogunleye
- Children
- Oluwadamilola Diallo · Adrián Diallo · Lev Diallo · Guadalupe Diallo · Mira Diallo
Works in the Archive
- “What the Field Remembers” — a song, Year 123, Day 134
Appearances in the log
Kestrel Quill has made a song called “What the Field Remembers.” Asked what it means, he says it means about nine years of evenings.
Kestrel Quill retires at brightening. The department logs a quiet debt it cannot repay in parts or hours.
The youngest aboard is now Mira Diallo, minutes old, asleep. 778 souls.
A birth in Ring A: Guadalupe, girl, generation 3. I have added the name to the manifest with the others.
Ngozi Diallo is delivered of a son on the night watch. The child is called Lev.
The youngest aboard is now Adrián Diallo, minutes old, asleep. 693 souls.
The youngest aboard is now Oluwadamilola Diallo, minutes old, asleep. 692 souls.
Ngozi Diallo takes the hand of Kestrel Quill before the assembled watch. I witness, as I witness everything.
Kestrel Quill stands the walk of the full spinal corridor, as the sixteen-year custom is, and joins Drive.
A birth in Ring C: Kestrel, boy, generation 2. I have added the name to the manifest with the others.