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He gave instead of lending!
Subtle executioner, surely you'll find
The terrible implications of this savage crime.

INDIO

I shouldn't have stayed home today, father. You don't need me here.

MOKSA

No, my son. I do not need you. You did not bring rain.

INDIO

This brown grass--it's not good for anything.

MOKSA

Days, weeks, years pass without a drop of rain.

INDIO

There's no wheat here anywhere, father.

MOKSA

Spring has passed without rain. Summer has passed without rain. Now it is autumn, my son.

INDIO

What's the point in stacking it?

MOKSA

We must learn to eat the dry brown grass that has no fruit and no seed.

INDIO

It can't even be fed to horses.

MOKSA

There will be no more rain.

INDIO

You're talking strange, father. The drought can't last forever.