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INDIO

Surely you've felt more real since you've been here.

VAISYA

I came only because I no longer had any reason to stay in India.

INDIO

You came because they murdered father.

VAISYA

That's not true, Indio. You know how he felt about seeking revenge.

INDIO

He never admitted you have to fight force with force. He begged until they poisoned him. He even begged for the poison.

VAISYA

Murdering them won't bring father back.

INDIO

If he had learned to kill he'd be alive now.

VAISYA

He'd be a killer.

INDIO

Instead of a beggar who was poisoned like a rat.

VAISYA

I want to build a new life for ourselves, not to kill.

INDIO

We can't build while butchers slice our limbs and sell the pieces across the ocean.

VAISYA

So we'll become the butchers and we'll slice their limbs.