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INDIO That talk is cowardice, Vaisya. If they know what's coming to them, they won't slaughter us.

VAISYA To fight and remain true to yourself isn't cowardice. To oppose without changing places with your opponent--that isn't cowardice.

INDIO Father never changed places--he started to raise his hand once--only once--and he left it down from then till the last day.

VAISYA Father betrayed himself--they forced him to become what they made him.

INDIO And they won't force us?

VAISYA I don't know! I don't know. That's why I came.

INDIO It's only when they start dying from it that they'll find out their plunder doesn't pay. When a master's life is taken as easily as a slave's, slavery will end.

VAISYA Shh. I hear someone coming.

VOICE OF MAN Haven't you had enough of this adventure? Do you want to stay until we're ambushed in this barbarian wilderness?