Sable Valdivia does not wake at brightening. 85 years, most of them given to Hydroponics.
Generation 3 · deceased
Sable Valdivia
Died Year 147, Day 348, aged 85.
- Born
- Year 62, Day 233
- Department
- Hydroponics
- Parents
- Wenling Valdivia · Zemin Ulriksen
- Children
- Babatunde Navarrete · Fadi Navarrete
- “Corridors of Year 135” — a mural, Year 135, Day 215
Sable Valdivia has made a mural called “Corridors of Year 135.” Asked what it means, he says it means about nine years of evenings.
Sable Valdivia retires on the first watch. The department logs a quiet debt it cannot repay in parts or hours.
Kestrel Navarrete is delivered of a son at brightening. The child is called Fadi.
Born at dimming: Babatunde Navarrete, generation 4. The ship holds 911 souls tonight.
Sable Valdivia resolves a long-period comet in the forward field — a smudge of home ice, very far from home. It is logged and named.
Kestrel Navarrete takes the hand of Sable Valdivia before the assembled watch. I witness, as I witness everything.
Sable Valdivia, sixteen, takes the seedkeeper apprenticeship in Hydroponics.
Wenling Valdivia is delivered of a son at dimming. The child is called Sable.