Three years after her second pregnancy, Asin became pregnant again, although she hadn’t planned for it. Dalia had already passed her puberty and after three months of her periods, she was allowed to go diving. Asin wanted to go with her but had decided to stay and take no more risks until the baby was born. She had stayed on the ship for eight months, taking care of herself and the baby and only attending to light chores. She was careful not to stand up for too long, bend down or lift heavy things. Dalia was mostly away on long diving trips to the drowned cities and Asin had felt very lonely. The days and nights seemed too long and boring. She had no one to talk to since no one spoke her language. She felt homesick and melancholic.

Her third baby was stillborn and had no ears. The women of the Avij ship remembered that this was Asin’s third stillborn and crippled child, although her first daughter was healthy and grown up. The women remembered having had thrown the baby without nails into the sea. Asin preferred to protect Dalia by distracting them. It was better for Dalia that the women had forgotten about her disability. The women blamed the death of the third baby on Asin’s diving. Dalia was translating to Asin what the women were saying. They wouldn’t accept that Asin had been on the ship for her entire pregnancy, they were sure not to have seen her on the ship for a long time. Asin had become depressed and weak after her last birth giving. She was also very tired of the women’s rebukes. She didn’t want to see anyone. She had moved out to a small boat that was tied to the ship.

Asin’s stillborn babies were talked about by the women of the ship for some time, until the giant fish’s attacks on fishing and diving boats started. The fishers and divers would die or disappear – sometimes in groups – in the attacks. The fish would bang themselves to the ship walls, scaring the residents who had no right to fight back and kill them. There was no more talk of Asin’s misfortunes and she had thought that they had forgotten all about her. But after a while, the residents got used to the attacks, deaths and disappearances. When the third pregnant woman was lost in the middle of the night, the women had dug out their memories and thought all the calamities they were suffering was related to Asin’s mishaps; since she had brought with her disobedience of the Saviour Rules resulting in the anger of the sea. Asin had become the symbol of modern ship women, both for her achievements as a diver and her stillborn babies.