Cast: Two women, HANNAH and REBECCA

Length: 8 minutes

REBECCA is seated on her stool when HANNAH rushes in, very excited, and takes the stool next to her.

REBECCA: Hannah! Hannah! Have you heard the news?

HANNAH: What news?

REBECCA: Then you haven't heard. We're to get packed and ready. We're leaving. Immediately.

HANNAH: Leaving? Leaving for where? Why should we be leaving?

REBECCA: Leaving for the Promised Land, silly! Of course you knew this. You're just teasing me.

HANNAH: I don't know anything about it.

REBECCA: How can you say that? The whole community has been talking about nothing else for weeks.

HANNAH: I haven't heard anything.

REBECCA: Then you must not have been listening. You did know that Moses has gone to talk to Pharaoh, not once but many times.

HANNAH: About us…