SLARVATHOffice of Off-World Correspondence

Bureau of Returning Persons — area sheet

Hossun

Hossun: one very long thin row of grey poured dwellings along a shore in watercolour, a worn track along the back of the row and a short spur running out toward the fog from its middle, lilac mend seams, a line of stippled hollows between the row and the fog.
HOSSUN

one house deep

The longest row on the south sea, and the thinnest. The crossing to Ebbeth leaves from the middle of it.

You walked the whole length of Hossun to get through it, because there is no other way through: the row is one house deep, and the track runs along its back. Every house faces the sea. Nothing is built behind.

In the middle of the row a spur runs out to the fog's edge, and that is where the vessels for Ebbeth are set out in the evening. You went across from there, or you watched someone go.

The mends are lilac, and on this shore they are the only colour. Below the last step the hollows run the length of the row, one to each house, and the row is as long as it is because nobody builds in front of another's hollow.

FrameOne line. Hossun is one house deep along the shore, and nothing stands behind it. ViewpointDrawn from above, as inhabited areas are.
Key
  1. 61 Hossun the row, one house deep
  2. 62 The spur where the vessels leave for Ebbeth
From here

How far is not recorded. How long is.

Office annotationHossun is held on the south shore way, between Dravvet and Kellid. The crossing to Ebbeth is held as leaving from Hossun.