Watership Down1978

Hazel:
Did you find anything on your flight?

Kehaar:
Efrafa.

Hazel:
Can you guide us there?

Kehaar:
Many rabbits. Too many rabbits.

Holly:
A lot of us wouldn't be enough to fight one of their wide patrols.

Bigwig:
What do you mean?

Holly:
[shows Bigwig the scar on his shoulder] You see this? They did it to me. It's an identification mark. Tells you when you can be above ground.

Bigwig:
What do you mean? Who's to stop you?

Holly:
Their Owsla. Their chief is called Woundwort. General Woundwort. I don't think even you'd match up to him, Bigwig. Under him are his captains, each one in charge of a Mark. If you're found above ground at the wrong time, they take you before the Council for punishment.

Bigwig:
Some of them must get away.

Holly:
They caught one trying to run away when I was there. Blackavar was his name. When they'd finished with him, both his ears were ripped to shreds...worse than this one of mine. He was lucky not to have been killed. There was another one, a doe, Hyzenthlay. I couldn't have escaped without her help.

Sliver:
Why didn't she go with you?

Holly:
She wouldn't go without the others.

Hazel:
Then there are some that might be persuaded to leave?

Holly:
Oh, yes. But you'd never get them out of Efrafa.

Dandelion:
Well, you got out.

Holly:
Only because Lord Frith sent one of his great messengers. [a flashback shows Holly running away from two Efrafans, the Efrafans are run over by a train and Holly rolls down a steep slope] I didn't see what happened to them. It must have cut them down.

Hazel:
Well, it's not going to be easy, but I'm afraid we don't have much choice. We'll start off as soon as I'm fit to travel.

Holly:
I don't like this idea of yours at all, Hazel.

Hazel:
Holly, I want you to stay here. You're known to them and it could be dangerous for you.

Holly:
I've been in Efrafa, and I tell you you're making a bad mistake that might very well get you all killed.