Padam, the former Maharajah, who still hopes that the reserve area will once again be his one day, does cultivation testings with corn on an experimental field. The catastrophic crops that threaten the rest of the country because of drought does not affect Padam's attempts, as he can irrigate his field from a deep-water fountain. When Bergen asks him to leave a part of the corn crops to the hungry reserve inhabitants, the former ruler shows himself indifferent.