The whole village need not to see the next scenes as they more or less knew what would happen. They felt bad for the child who bears the old prophet's cautions. It had been years, but the fact he is alive and out for vengeance is truth for what he has been to.
"He is now free, isn't he?" One of the villagers asked with certainty in his voice. "He will come here to seek asylum. And it depends on us if we welcome him as we all promised to all of ours."