Nyelang
While everyone in The Delta uses small, flat-bottomed boats to get around, some denizens possess larger versions that they use as their actual homes. These houseboats are built with a covered wooden structure in the central section that is high enough that a person would merely need to stoop to enter. These usually have long, low windows that can be shuttered, or opened to let in air.
Hundreds of these houseboats gather at the place called Nyelang. In many cases, dozens or scores are lashed together, effectively making large platforms. People can step from boat to boat for hundreds of feet before needing to cross open water. The composition of boats is always changing as new people arrive and other owners decide to head for a new location. Those in the middle of a formation might consider selling their houseboat rather than trying to work it free, but those on an edge or untethered to a larger group can simply float away.
This changeability can offer a certain degree of anonymity to those who desire that. While boat dwellers might be interested in their neighbor’s business when the person is nearby, in general they neither know nor care whence that neighbor came nor where the person might have gone next.
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