Hideaway Strath sapukutaq

He bristles.

Then they do not travel. Or they can take the risk.

If she had chosen somewhere else, this would not be happening. If she did not like it then, what? Would she bring her people to war against him? Against the village? They had reached a compromise and now she was being petulant.

I will not have strangers going unwatched across my land. If that is not acceptable to you, then take your people and leave. Or, accept that you have made a mistake—one which could be far more costly than this arrangement. Kigipigak could have demanded blood from those that ignored his village. He could have come up with all manner of reasons to take food from their mouths, whether Reyna's people had hunted on his land or not; there would be no way to prove one way or another. Instead, there was compromise.

Either you accept things as they are now, or you contain your people to your chosen home and they do not leave. He did not care one way or another; if they stayed put, that would be easiest for Kigipigak. If they chose to move freely, there would be consequences and he felt he had made this well known by now. There was one way out—and Reyna need only accept it.