You presume my land lawless merely because man civilized it long before any civilized your own dear native land, and therefore the laws that bind us are perhaps different from those by which you abide. You do lay insult against me if you think I haven't wit enough to learn the laws and customs of another country. When this crew was hurled down upon the islands of the cloven-footed Nalawi, did I not try to adopt their customs that we may better work together? And did I not seek to be suppliant to the goddesses who from the belly of the mountains and the waves once watched, although they were not among the gods I was taught to honor from birth?

Moreover, a man has right to take another man's property only when he conquers him in war - and we shall be allies of the people of Woodhurst, not their enemies. So too, a man has right to slay another only when the other's treachery demands it so: the scoundrel meets justice upon the blade of the one whom he wronged in his defiance of the law. Yet if in this city of Woodhurst there exists no just cause for such retribution, then I cannot seek it, lest I incur punishment upon my own head. Therefore you need not worry.