“I’m so sorry, Tirad! We can’t take you in… I know you are probably innocent in the fire incident, but the people on the ship won’t believe it. There must be someone within our five hundred residents that has lost a loved one in the fire, they will take you back to the Saviour Ship or even hurt you. You should leave immediately…go as far as you can…even outside of the Oxan region…you are not going to be safe here,” she says. Tirad can hardly breathe. He didn’t think he would bring about the rage and hatred of the sea people for something he hadn’t done. He tells her he understands. But he feels so abandoned inside, having no place to go to. He still needs her to explain and clarify more things. Armina says it will take time for him to adjust to what he heard, but he has to face the truth and stop denying it.

“Hurmaz must have seen how fragile you are and didn’t dare to tell you the truth, afraid of breaking you like this…but you had to face it sometime and it would never be easy,” she says. Tirad doesn’t like to be called fragile. Hurmaz must have given him the Parsana exile sentence so that Tirad would search and find this truth. Still he doesn’t find Armina’s words to be logical. If they believe they hold the truth, why have they not acted on it before? They could have done something in the war, fighting against the so-called false followers of the Saviour – as she puts it – not among them. He tells her these.

“How could someone be right and not want to prove it?” he asks.

“Sometimes, the truth doesn’t matter. Whoever holds the power, creates the truth in the shape they see fit. We couldn’t act on it, not now, not thirty years ago or even hundred years ago since we are put aside from any real power. Hami was too smart to spread his fake beliefs knowing that no belief would hold without the back support of an economical power system… He knew how to do it and had set up a precise trade system that would only work if the Saviour Rules hold. Right now, we have to go to Atlan to buy our supplies. Having been wiped out from the Oxan and the Saviour map hadn’t served us well but still we insist on our rightfulness,” Armina explains and hands the parcel to Tirad.

“These are the accounts of all the corrupt dealings and contracts of the Saviour Ship… All the Circle members, most of the disciples especially a third-tier disciple named Mart are involved,” she says. Tirad takes the documents excitedly, hoping to use them with the coins he has found belonging to Mart. He could go back and prove his innocence, tell the truth and overthrow them all… But Armina is not so hopeful.

“Don’t keep your hopes high! I took a look at the documents to see why they were left to you… Do you know why?” she asks. Tirad thinks because Hurmaz trusted him but he is not sure. Hurmaz could have used the documents himself. Why did he leave them to him, to find them after his death? Why did he not stop them while he was alive? He could have tried them all and condemn them.