SLARVATHOffice of Off-World Correspondence

Bureau of Returning Persons — area sheet

Corren

Corren: a low green rise above the curving shore of a level fog sea, in watercolour, one long low domed building with a wide window toward the sea and two small round outbuildings beside it, and below on the shore path a long shallow groove worn into pale rock.
Cf. FilmThe ground the plate is drawn from.
CORREN

the year begins here

The year is counted from a passing, and Corren is where it passes.

You were here when the herd came by, or someone told you about it who was.

The watchers keep the station on the rise above the shore. They have kept it longer than they have kept anything, and theirs is the longest record anyone holds. You may watch with them. You may not name anything.

Sellet rests in the groove below the station, worn a little deeper every round. Work stops when the herd comes. It always has.

The hollows lie above the groove and the herd goes below them. When the herd comes, work stops in the hollows too.

FrameAn open arc: the shore it watches. ViewpointDrawn from above, as inhabited areas are.
Key
  1. 27 The station the watchers' room, its window to the sea
  2. 28 The groove where Sellet rests
From here

How far is not recorded. How long is.

Office annotationThe year is entered as turning on the passing here, and nowhere else.