Tirad reads the text over and over again. Some of the words have no meaning for him like ‘genetic mutation’, ‘evolution’, ‘ecosystem’ and ‘species’. Yet he has seen with his own eyes what the Saviour had tried to say. He had heard about the malformed babies of Asin and her persistence to give birth on land. The Ship women believed their babies won’t stay alive unless they give birth on the islands and had fled to the Oxan refugee harbour. He had seen his own baby that looked more like a fish than a human baby, breathing under water and nursing on a dolphin’s breast, going with the dolphins to a new ecosystem in the depths of the sea. Armina had said the Saviour was not a seer or a fortune-teller, but he was a scientist and his parents were scientists too. The Saviour Ship was a large library and the Saviour was a learned man, having read a lot. Perhaps these new words had come out of the pre-rain books and his prophecy was only a scientific prediction of the future based on some pre-knowledge. The same way that Armina had said, he had predicted the location of lands based on his geographical information. Armina is not here anymore for Tirad to tell her about his baby and to know that the Saviour’s prophecy, whether based on facts or fiction has come true. He sighs.

Hurmaz and Armina probably knew the relevance of the Saviour’s prophecy and the deaths of the pregnant women but for some reason they hadn’t given him all the cues. Armina had even denied the existence of such prophecies and Parsana’s pages saying no one knew where they were hidden, even though she had one of them herself and Tirad had the rest! Why did she hide it? Perhaps Hurmaz and Parsana wanted to make sure the suspicious deaths of the pregnant women had no other reason and then reveal the prophecy. But these pages were kept away from the Saviour Ship and Hurmaz had given him the first pages with caution and had insisted that no one but Tirad should know of such mission. If he was still alive, would he reveal Tirad’s findings or hide them to prevent the spreading fear and chaos throughout the ships? There is no way to prevent this natural phenomenon. On the other hand, some of the recent problems were related to this great and inevitable change, such as the immigration of ship’s women to the Oxan refugee harbour and the attacks of dolphins. If the Circle knew this, they might have acted differently and do something to help the women instead of torching them out of the floating harbour. But the Circle has no ears for the truth, Tirad knows now! Even if they knew, they would have probably ignored it.