“And both before the dry season is over!” he emphasises. Mart wants to bring more excuses and say such jobs are given to the third-tier disciples not him. He has so much to do! He reminds Akhgar of the new deals and contracts that they are abiding, one of them is to be finalised today with two of the Oxan chiefs… But Akhgar wouldn’t have it. He says he doesn’t trust anyone for these two matters except Mart. He insists that the first matter should be kept a secret and no one should even suspect anything, if anyone finds out such documents exist somewhere, they will try to find and use them against Mart and Akhgar. Mart has no choice. Even though he is sure Hurmaz hadn’t given any papers to anyone, he says he will take care of the matter.

Akhgar also insists that Mart should personally find Tirad and make sure he doesn’t have the documents before he is tried. If someone else finds him first, they might kill him before they have a chance to interrogate him about the documents. Mart promises he will set off to Oxan tomorrow and follow east towards Atlan, searching all the ships on the way. But then again, he has another thought. He knows where the documents may be hidden: in the library! He stops Akhgar on the Ship’s entrance and explains.

“Hurmaz usually went to the forbidden library. I had heard he hid secret and important documents between the rusty books. I have a plan for that!” he says excitedly and tries to convince Akhgar of not sending him in chase of Tirad. He says he trusts Yuma and if he is told to bring Tirad alive, he will do so. But if he has to go look for him, they might lose valuable time. As for the library, he thinks they should talk to the paper dealers that have come from Yorifa Ship today and sell them the useless books. In this way, Mart can have his own cabin sooner and they can get rid of anything that might be hidden among the books without having to search them one by one. The paper dealers don’t care about the contents, all they want is bulk material and that’s how they would treat these harmful forbidden books. They will pay them a lot of coins for the books. Akhgar seems to have liked the idea but gives him a deadline.

“If Tirad is not found by the end of the dry season, you have to go and find him yourself!” Akhgar says. Mart agrees. They should go to the dinner table now and to their important guests who have donated chickens to the Saviour Ship for the mourning dinner. Mart shall lay out his plan after lunch. He is starving and all this thinking and planning has made him tired. He follows Akhgar to the table and sits next to Yuma who has saved him a seat. He needs to talk to Yuma about it all, but after the feast. Akhgar sits on the top of the table and welcomes the guests again. He starts singing the Saviour Grace Hymns to thank the sea for providing them with food and invites the guests to feast on the humble Saviour food.