SLARVATHOffice of Off-World Correspondence

Bureau of Returning Persons — area sheet

Pellen

Pellen: a short row of six grey poured dwellings along a worn track on dry ground in watercolour, and set off the track one older squatter dwelling crossed by many rose-pink mend seams so that it reads faintly pink, the track continuing toward rising ground, no fog.
PELLEN

one house older

A short row, and one house apart from it that is older than the row.

You came through Pellen on the way from Rennith to Corren, and you will remember the one house off the track, heavier than the others, with more mend in it than any house in the row. It was there before the row was. The row was built beside it, not round it.

The way goes on east to Corren, where the herd passes and the year turns. From Pellen you cannot see the station. You can see where the ground rises toward it.

The mends are rose, and on the old house they are laid one over another, so that the house reads as pink from the track.

FrameA long rectangle, with one mark set off it. The row, and the one house that was there before it. ViewpointDrawn from above, as inhabited areas are.
Key
  1. 67 Pellen the row
  2. 68 The old house off the track, heavily mended
From here

How far is not recorded. How long is.

Office annotationPellen is held on the way from Rennith to Corren. One dwelling at Pellen is held on an earlier account than the rest.