Papers
Particulars on file for the Correspondent. Maintained by the Office and reviewed annually.
| Field | Entry |
|---|---|
| Designation | Correspondent SLV-4 |
| World of origin | Slarvathia |
| Height | four and a quarter hesps |
| Residency | provisional, renewed annually, uncontested |
| Service | orreth, reporting posting. Term: one sull. Commenced before this file opens. |
| Preparation | One sitting at Senn. Duration one sull. Not converted. |
| Occupation | Prep, back of house, four evenings. Otherwise entered as “the help” at the Correspondent’s insistence. The Office’s word is orreth. The two are not entered as the same thing. |
| Declared practice | Entered at first interview as “church” and corrected by the Correspondent, at some length. Entered now as observed: occasional smiling, and the Long Sitting maintained with ease. |
| Declared items | one (non-declarable) |
| Personal effects | one flumper-dumper (term not recognised); one vessel, enamelled; one lanyard with badge, blank |
| Transmissions on file | 43, beginning SLV-0104 |
| Household record | Complete |
Terms of correspondence
The Correspondent transmits at his own discretion and at no fixed interval. Each transmission is reviewed on receipt and annotated where the record requires it. Annotations are a matter of accuracy and are not to be read as commentary.
The Office does not solicit transmissions and does not decline them. The numbering is the Correspondent’s own; the Office adopted it on receipt and has not revised it.
Service
Every Slarvathian undertakes orreth. The Correspondent’s is a reporting posting and this world is where it is served. He is expected to return from it having found his klaqqic. The Office has recorded what a klaqqic is three times and has three different entries.
The term is one sull. A sull is a duration named for what is done inside it and cannot be converted into kadd, and the Office is therefore unable to state whether the term has ended.
No instruction precedes the term. The Correspondent’s preparation is entered above as it was reported: one sitting, at Senn, the night before. What was said at it is not held, and the Correspondent, asked, has said that nothing was.