Having coins in the Saviour Ship is not of great importance, since everything the residents need is provided for them. They all have their shares of food, clothing, candles etc., the personal treasuries would be spent on two things, first of all pleasure and if they get bored, it would be spent to buy power. The Saviour Ship had more influence on the whole Oxan region, not fully comprehensible by a student like Mart. But he had grown soon enough to learn about it. If for example a complaint was sent to sue a production ship that made oxygen masks, it was in the hands of the Circle to decide whether the Oxan divers should continue their purchase from that ship or to replace a rival producer ship. The Circle affected the everyday lives of the people behind their closed door and the winners were those who could make their ways into the Circle and pay enough coins to those influential members of the Circle. Hurmaz knew all about these and tried to stop the illegal dealings, but the dirty members were careful not to leave any traces of their off the book dealings and keep their clean outlooks. The only other member of the Circle that could not be bought was Chuman. Their votes were not tradable. But Hurmaz was mostly unable to vote against the unanimous Circle and Akhgar’s group was careful to keep the appearances. Whenever a decision didn’t affect their dealings, they would instantly give in to Hurmaz’s decision on the matter and on other occasions, they would firmly stand their own.

But this was not enough for Akhgar and Mart. They preferred not to play such games, to have to constantly consider when to give in to Hurmaz’s approval and when not to. Mart had come up with the idea. He had explained his plan with details to Akhgar. It wasn’t a difficult thing to do. All they needed was one of the healer-maids to cooperate with them, to feed a certain poison to Hurmaz over a period of time, make him become eventually sick and die. Akhgar wanted Lealy to do it since she was the maid responsible for taking Hurmaz’s food. But Mart knew they couldn’t count on Lealy. He had prepared the poison himself and needed someone to do the deed in the kitchen. He didn’t want to give coins away since a young maid with Saviour coins could easily give them away. He had a better, less costly idea, to scare one of the young kitchen maids and blackmail her to do what he asked of her. He had raped the girl and had told her if she said anything, he would cut off her tongue. The helpless orphan girl was so scared that she had taken her own life, drinking up the whole poison. There were no witnesses for her rape or suicide, and her suspicious death was soon forgotten. But Mart had learnt his lesson. He knew that next time he should take it a little easier to avoid another useless death.