Nils Thorvaldsen has died at 47, far too early. Drive stands down a shift in grief.
Generation 6 · deceased
Nils Thorvaldsen
Died Year 183, Day 21, aged 47.
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- Born
- Year 135, Day 78
- Department
- Drive
- Role
- Chief of Drive
- Parents
- Opal Thorvaldsen · Lumen Petrov
- Children
- Teodoro Yan · Rell Yan
Works in the Archive
- “A outward field” — a play, Year 167, Day 9
Appearances in the log
The youngest aboard is now Rell Yan, minutes old, asleep. 843 souls.
Mira Yan is delivered of a son late in the second watch. The child is called Teodoro.
Nils Thorvaldsen is made Chief of Drive, and marks it by standing the ordinary shift anyway.
Nils Thorvaldsen finishes a play: “A outward field.” It shows in the commons through the week.
Nils Thorvaldsen and Mira Yan are joined under the orchard lamps. The whole of Drive turns out.
Nils Thorvaldsen chooses Drive — or it chooses him; the elders disagree cheerfully.
A son, Nils Thorvaldsen, born in the Ring B infirmary to Opal Thorvaldsen and Lumen Petrov. Mother and child are well.