What also amaze him are the exports! They have been selling fish as large as two hundred kilos, perhaps sharks, dolphins or other fish forbidden to be hunted down and killed according to the Saviour Rules! How could they have done this? Where have they been fishing? From which parts of the Oxan region? Could it be those parts where the fish had attacked the boats, killing the fishers and sending their families as refugees to Oxan? He remembers Dalia’s father was sent to a fishing trip and had never returned. Now he knows why they had bought fishing boats. Fishers like Dalia’s father were probably sent off on the new boats to fish in areas further away and send back the meat to be exported. He doubts they have been paid properly for their difficult work. He knows Mart would never pay, he would just threaten and scare them and keep all the profit. Perhaps Tirad is being too pessimistic; they could all be just wild guesses. The list in itself doesn’t prove anything. There are only a few supporting documents, copies of the communication letters and the contracts. But they are just copies, not originals. Hurmaz knew he couldn’t act on these documents alone. He needs to find proof for every single one of them. But why did Hurmaz wanted him to have this list? Obviously, he didn’t mean for Tirad to join Mart and his allies, nor would he expect him to stop them and fight against them. Armina was right; it would be suicide to oppose them alone. Tirad remembers Hurmaz’s last words on the deck when he had asked him about the handwritten pages of Parsana. He had said, “I gave you this in case nothing worked out!” and then he had said, “Perhaps truth is not always the written text passed along to us… You will know when you’ll need them.” Did he mean Armina’s different version of the history? Is this the time when nothing has worked out and he needs to put his trust in Armina’s truth?

Dalia turns off the engine. She says they should throw Narivan into the water here and sail further to get away from where the body is thrown out before they stop for their night retreat. The fish will come to eat Narivan’s body and if they are close, they might get attacked. Tirad puts the documents in his leather bag and gets up to help her. Narivan’s body is covered in a blanket and rolled with a metal net. When he is thrown into the water, his body would swell and the fish can easily eat off his flesh bulged out of the net, leaving no trace of him within two days. His bones will eventually smash down from crashing to the ship bodies and washed out to the shores with the broken shells. The body is heavy and they need to drag it on the deck. The stench of the infected, decaying body is so hurried that Tirad throws up instantly. Dalia gives him some time to catch his breath but he can’t get close to the body. Dalia brings him a cloth to cover his nose and mouth, but Tirad wants to sing the Saviour Departing Hymns for Narivan and doesn’t want to cover his mouth. He needs to perform a Parting Ceremony, not just for Narivan but also for Hurmaz and Lealy. He hasn’t said goodbye to them. He wonders if Hurmaz’s body had such a malodour like Narivan’s and father Zusima’s in the Brothers Karamazov. Father Zusima had died naturally and still had a bad smell. The stench of Narvan’s body is because of the infection that had spread throughout his flesh. What about Hurmaz? He had written to Armina that they wanted to poison him; he wonders if that’s how he had died.