SLARVATHOffice of Off-World Correspondence

Bureau of Returning Persons — area sheet

Old Grieth

Old Grieth: rolling knolls in watercolour, poured and carved dwellings standing along a pale track, low walls between the fields, a river across the foreground.
Cf. FilmThe ground the plate is drawn from.
OLD GRIETH

the least altered

The oldest settlement, and the least altered. What has worn here has been mended in place, and the mends are older than the houses anywhere else.

You came in along the track and the track has not moved. The dwellings stand as they were poured. The Bureau has no works to report at Grieth and has had none to report for as long as the file has been kept.

Departures are from the crossing at the far end. Two hundred kadd to the Belt, which is one full day, and the figure has never been revised.

Grieth is the only area on this sheet where a returning person is expected to recognise the individual dwelling. Allow for this. It takes longer than it used to.

Below the last step the hollows are the oldest on the sheet. The lips have been poured so often there is more mend in them than stone, and what grows in them is what grew when you were here.

FrameA wide horizontal oval. Grieth is a row along a track. ViewpointDrawn from above, as inhabited areas are.
Key
  1. 1 Old Grieth the oldest settlement, and the least altered
  2. 2 The Belt Crossing departures from Grieth. Two hundred kadd
From here

How far is not recorded. How long is.

Office annotationThe Correspondent describes Grieth as unchanged. The Office notes that unchanged and unrepaired are not the same claim, and has entered both.