“You are a healer-maid, aren’t you?” Ashid asks, and Lealy confirms. Ashid takes her away from the rest of the patients and tells her to follow her. They go towards the cabins. Lealy is glad to be under a roof, finally clear of the rapid raindrops that smashed on her face and bare shoulders. She exhales and her tears roll down her cheeks. She can’t believe the Parsana Ship really exists, but she’s happy in her heart that it does. She can finally track down Tirad. Ashid leads her to a guest cabin and gives her a towel and some dry clothes.

“There are so many sicknesses around here… We are used to them but you might catch them, especially with wet clothes,” Ashid says. Lealy thanks her.

“Have you come to stay? Or you just want to see Armina?” Ashid asks. Lealy is not sure. She had only heard of the Parsana Ship a few months back while she was being treated for her massive burns in Oxan by the hands of a healer that claimed to have been sent from Parsana to help the wounded refugees. She had heard the parallel narrative of the Saviour from the girl who was bandaging her face. She couldn’t talk at the time, being in a shock from the accident. But the kind healer had talked to her and had taken care of her. The Parsana healers had left Oxan very soon after they had tended to the wounded. It had taken many months for Lealy to finally find her way to this Ship. She had to work and save up coins and find a boat that would bring her here. The boats don’t leave directly for Parsana from Oxan and she had to go to another ship and wait for a boat that collected the patients for Parsana. No one would even talk directly about this ship, especially in front of Lealy who was a Saviour maid-healer.

Yet the news about Tirad spread like wind and the last place he was seen was here. She had heard Tirad had sailed to Atlan from Parsana. But something didn’t add up. She still can’t believe Tirad had started the fire. She had thought about the last days she had with Tirad for the last six months. He was troubled by something and when he said goodbye, he was raged and anxious. But he had said he was going back to the Saviour Island. Lealy blames herself. She had treated him badly and turned him away after the night on the boat when Mart wanted to rape her. But Tirad was troubled with some other thought, he was nervous and worried. Could it be because he had planned the fire? What does not make sense is that the fire had no benefit for Tirad. What good would come out of it for him? Maybe it was all Mart’s doing. But if it was, he wouldn’t send her to the harbour at the same night. No matter how cruel Mart was, he wouldn’t play with Lealy’s life like that. She had been drowned in these thoughts for too long, she can neither blame Tirad nor forgive him, the same goes for Mart. Yet she thinks again if the fire was not Tirad’s doing, why had he escaped? Why didn’t he stay and defend himself and help sort out the wretched situation? Why had he left her behind? She hopes to find new trails here and find out what had really happened.