Contents ( 43)
- Rain Born
- Rain Born
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Copyright Information ©
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
- Chapter 33
- Chapter 34
- Chapter 35
- Chapter 36
- Chapter 37
- Chapter 38
Until one night when he became ill, burning up with fever. Parsana had looked after him the whole night, trying to lower his temperature by putting a damp cloth on his feet and forehead. The boy mumbled unclear sounds and had woken up Parsana who had fell asleep by his side and said his first word ‘land’. He had said that he knew where the new land is. Most of the Saviour Islands residents had made fun of him. But Hami who had seen the miracle of his birth and had named the ship and the island after him, was more than happy to take a new trip searching for a land. He just didn’t know where to sail and now the little Saviour had given him directions. The search team had set sail taking the boy with them.
Saviour had closed his eyes and point to the direction where the boat had to go. It was to the south west of the Saviour Island. They were on the sea for three days until they finally reached the great new island of Oxan, near the pre-rain city of Ahwaz. This was Saviour’s third marvel, his miraculous birth the first and starting to talk after five years was his second. Saviour had stayed in his birth island. But many people from nearby ships had fled to the new land. Hami would take taxes and entrance fees for those who entered the island. And those who resided had to accept the Saviour Rules, believing in the Saviour and his marvels and obey the laws of the new land. Saviour had given his Rules on his way back to the search party. His Rules, given in the age of five was only title-wise and he had spent the rest of his life explaining them to the people of the sea and the new lands. He had appointed Oxan as the trade centre for the ships although at the time not much trading took place and the only money that came in was from the entrance taxes.
As the years passed and fishers started to fish more than their need and the divers started mining the drowned cities and diving out goods from them, the Saviour’s Rule about Oxan being a trade centre started to make sense. Hami would sit by him for hours, drafting the detailed plans and laws of the Oxan. Ariad would also take part in the conversations and there are many references in his Narratives to the talks between the Saviour and Hami and how they regulated the Oxan commerce system. But Parsana gives a different account of the Saviour from the similar time. She had written that the Saviour became exhausted of all the serious talks. He could neither play with the kids born after the Great Fog – all smaller than him – nor was he able to take up so much responsibility given to him by Hami. Parsana talks about the Saviour introducing him as a great man stuck in the body of a teenager who wants to grow up fast and become an adult, taking control of the world around him. Her other narratives, although respectful of the Saviour’s high position, explains her mother-son relationship. She explains her love to her foster son as being great and deep but insisting that she would never undermine his rules because of her emotions towards him. In one of her accounts, a woman asks why Parsana and Ariad would not have a baby of their own. She replies that Saviour had not given them permission to have a child and that their love for the Saviour is too great, leaving no place for them to love another child.