Outside a hut. 

"I don't think it's safe here anymore."

Tahni said finally after been quite since a while. Her mother was seated on her usual stool, her back to the door. Tahni was standing beside her, staring blankly at the worn path which leads to their hut. 

"A little uproar shouldn't change the fact that this is our land. If we all run away, who will defend it?"

Her mother said without looking at her. 

"How could you say that, ma. Even the princess is no longer in the land. She had been banished, with the pregnancy in her. The men who had done such thing to her, do...