Folasade Pillai has made a play called “Bright Signal (Year 158).” Asked what it means, she says it means about nine years of evenings.
Generation 4
Folasade Pillai
64, serving.
- Born
- Year 120, Day 167
- Department
- Drive
- Role
- drive engineer
- Parents
- Johanna Pillai · Cedric Navarrete
- Partner
- Bogdan Valdivia
- Children
- Orrery Pillai · Gantry Pillai · Deneb Pillai · Sojourn Pillai · Quill Pillai
- “Late Ladder, Early Sky” — a instrument, Year 150, Day 283
- “Bright Signal (Year 158)” — a play, Year 158, Day 111
A birth in Ring B: Quill, girl, generation 6. I have added the name to the manifest with the others.
A daughter, Sojourn Pillai, born in the Ring B infirmary to Folasade Pillai and Bogdan Valdivia. Mother and child are well.
“Late Ladder, Early Sky,” a instrument by Folasade Pillai, is unveiled late in the second watch to the particular applause of Drive.
A son, Deneb Pillai, born in the Ring A infirmary to Folasade Pillai and Bogdan Valdivia. Mother and child are well.
A son, Gantry Pillai, born in the Ring A infirmary to Folasade Pillai and Bogdan Valdivia. Mother and child are well.
Born on the night watch: Orrery Pillai, generation 6. The ship holds 889 souls tonight.
Bogdan Valdivia and Folasade Pillai are joined under the orchard lamps. The whole of Medical turns out.
Folasade Pillai chooses Drive — or it chooses her; the elders disagree cheerfully.
The youngest aboard is now Folasade Pillai, minutes old, asleep. 958 souls.