“Would you really shoot them if they come back?” I asked quietly. He looked at me sharply, and I saw that while he might be heavy of heart, that heart was also burning with a deep anger. “Sassenach,” he said, “they betrayed me, and they hunted me like a wild animal, across my own land, for the sake of what they call the King’s justice. I have had enough of that justice. Should they come within my sight, on my land, again—aye. I will kill them.”
