SLARVATHOffice of Off-World Correspondence

Bureau of Returning Persons — area sheet

Sellen

Sellen: dry pale uplands in watercolour above the curving shore of a wide level bank of fog, a broad worn band running along the shore just above the fog, and a narrower worn path coming down from the uplands and crossing it beside one low grey dome and a few worn stones.
Cf. FilmThe ground the plate is drawn from.
SELLEN

where the way waits for the herd

Every way home from Hesk crosses the herd here.

You waited here on the way home, because everyone does. The herd comes along the shore above the fog, the way goes across in front of it, and nobody crosses ahead of the herd.

There is one room, and the stones outside it are worn smooth on the side that faces the shore.

Hesk is behind you. Whatever you were given at the foot of the stair is still warm.

FrameA rectangle crossed by an open band. The frame stops where the herd passes. ViewpointDrawn from above, as inhabited areas are.
Key
  1. 29 Sellen the waiting ground, and one room
  2. 30 The ford where the way crosses the herd's
From here

How far is not recorded. How long is.

Office annotationEvery way the Office holds out of Hesk crosses the herd here, and nowhere else. The herd is entered as passing. Nobody is entered as crossing ahead of it.