Big Salmon Lake kalugruak

The trader mentioned doing it out of kindness of his heart and Dwin arched an eyebrow and offered him a look of disbelief and sceptical attitude. He may have fooled, whoever that little rascal he had spoken to earlier been, but did he really think that an adult would fall for that? There was this old saying about real monsters never appearing as such. She applied the same logic to kindness too. One thing was receiving it from good friends. Completely another, if it came from strangers. There were always strings attached, even if they had claimed otherwise. 

"You do realize that you should never make deals with kids," she told him, looking him seriously in the eyes. "Especially deals as yours. They have no right to make such in the name of the pack and therefore you have no obligation to uphold it either," she said. "Even if you showered Brecheliant in venison steaks tomorrow, you most likely get a polite thank you, but nothing in return," in other words - don't do that again and stay away.

"Besides no one does anything out of goodness of their heart. There is always a reason. What's yours - earned some bad karma points that need to be cleared?" she asked, the tone of her voice had lost its steely edge now and was expressing genuine curiousity. "Or is it some voodoo/religion stuff that your culture runs by and thus you are obliged to do all of this?"