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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.