"That'd depend on whether or not ye have plans to slaughter me and take over m'country. If ye don't, then we can exist peaceably enough. Problem is, I've never met anyone English that didn't have designs on m'land, or m'people for his own gain."

Erik was smiling, but it didn't go near his eyes. War had been his life for too many years and he still didn't know just what this place was, or who was responsible for his being here.