“The bitter accident in Oxan and the passing of our Great Disciple has struck us hard. The Saviour Ship has given coins and boats to the victims of the fire to compensate their loss. They are returning to their home ships as we speak. The Saviour Ship will never abandon its followers.” The crowd cheers him again.

“The man responsible for both disasters is a lost disciple who has forgotten his path and disobeyed the Saviour Rules. Tirad will be arrested and punished for his heinous crimes,” he continues and pauses to point at the girl who is chained to the platform. The guards take away the wooden plank so that the crowd may see the girl. Her face is washed with blood and tears. The crowd starts booing and cursing and throwing rocks at her.

“This poor girl has confessed to her unforgivable crime. Even though it was Tirad who had forced her to act unwontedly, but we cannot forgive her for poisoning our Great Disciple. She is to be punished today, thrown into the water the same time as our parting ceremony,” Akhgar goes on, as the guards put the small, wooden wall in front of the girl again.

“Perhaps these calamities and disasters would bring us to ourselves to try and conduct the ways of the Saviour in our lives and obey his rules at all costs in order to prevent the anger of the sea. If we do so, we shall pass through these difficult times together and never face such tragedies again,” Akhgar finishes his words. The crowd bursts into ruckus again. Akhgar steps down from the platform and the Circle members follow him. Six guards carry Hurmaz’s body towards the harbour. Two other guards drag the girl behind. The chiefs and other mourners follow behind, slowly walking in the island dust road to the harbour.

Another crowd has gathered around the docks, waiting to say farewell to their leader. Akhgar orders the guards to take off the fabric from Hurmaz’s livid body and wrap him in a pre-prepared metal net. Hurmaz’s winded body is put on a boat to be thrown out into the deep water. The girl is next in line. Metallic muzzles are put on her face, heavy metal handcuffs are tied to her hands and stones that should keep her underwater are attached to her leg chains. The girl can hardly walk from the heavy weight that pulls her down. The two guards drag her into the boat. Akhgar starts singing the Saviour Departing Hymns and the leftovers follow him, singing along: “Man is made from water… He shall return to water… We bestow the child of the water into its care… May he comeback to us in the best of bodies…either of man or the giant fish…”

Khunas and Chouman get on the boat with the guards and the boatmen. They have to be present when Hurmaz’s body is thrown into the sea and the death sentence is carried out for the girl. The mourning pilgrims return to the stranded ship, forming a line for the free food of the ceremony. Akhgar turns to the chiefs and invites them for the lunch that is going to be served on the deck. He keeps Mart behind saying he needs to have a word with him. Two guards stay behind to protect the First Disciple and Mart, and the rest walk back to the Saviour Ship with the crowd and the guests. Akhgar asks Mart to sit beside him on a bench overlooking the harbour, pretending that the two sorrowful members of the Circle needed more time saying farewell to Hurmaz. They just stare at the departing boat for a few minutes until the harbour becomes less crammed.