Parsana and Ariad were a couple who lived on one of the fully equipped ships and had woken up to a new world, a world where horizon was once more visible. The horizon separated the sea and the sky, there were no more water coming down or evaporating up to the sky anymore. One could say at which point the water level settled and from there the breathable air dwelled. But the victims of the Great Fog were numerous among their ships. Some masks had been ruptured or ran out of oxygen and some couldn’t bear the long anaesthesia and they hadn’t lived to see the new horizon. Ariad and Parsana who were on the ship of Iran authorities had finally started their life together. Some say they were in love before the rain and some believe they had met and fall for each other on the ship and some believe that they never met until after the Great Fog when search parties were formed. There are no sayings about the matter in the written Narratives of Hami, Parsana and Ariad.

For the heirs of the new drowned world, everything that had happened before seemed vague and ambiguous specially the duration of the events. But after the Great Fog, under the shiny sun and the clear sky, things had started to look more clearly. The sky like the sea had finally calmed down. But the navigation systems of the ships had broken down. The Captain of Ariad and Parsan’s ship and the rest of the crew hadn’t survived the Great Fog. They had loosened the ship from the start and tried just to keep it afloat and not let it drown in the storms, although they didn’t live to be thanked for their efforts and saving the lives of many on their ship. The storms had past but no one had any idea of where they were and how deep was the water. There could be anything under the surface, the ruins of the drowned cities, giant buildings or a ship that had wrecked during the storms. It was safer not to move the ship to avoid any collisions with unknown underwater obstacles. They had anchored their ship and started looking for help, to be able to repair their navigation systems.

A week after the Great Fog, two search parties were formed on Ariad and Parsana’s ship. The first group was a ship-search party and the second team to find land. Ariad and Parsana had joined the second team that was led by a middle-aged man named Hami. He had located the ship by a compass and the star positions that had once more lightened up the night sky. Their ship was anchored somewhere at the south west of the drowned city of Hamedan. Before they had set out to search, they had cleared the ship of more than hundred and twenty bodies that were lying around all over the ship. The bodies of the Great Fog victims were thrown out into the sea, among them Parsana’s father and Ariad’s sister who had stayed awake during the fog taking care of their loved ones that had been put to sleep; their masks had ran out of oxygen suffocating them before the sky had cleared.