5th

Thud!

I landed on the deck a minute before the deadline; most of the others have returned and many are returning.

"Looking at your face; it seemed like, you have got the good haul," I said to Zarna as she landed by me.

She seemed happy, smiling ear to ear.

"Yes, I did, and you?" she asked. "It was not disappointing," I replied and her smile little dimmed.

"You shouldn't have run to a secluded place; the place, I had gone was a little crowded, but there were a lot of pearl oysters," she said, mistaking my words for the bad haul.

"It wasn't really bad," I replied, putting a little bigger smile on my face.

Soon the three hours passed, but the shields didn't come back. There will be, it will take a minute more; there is a minute of pulling period.