Seems like a fair trade to me. Do you want to shake on it? I would offer a pinkie promise but we take those very, very seriously where I come from and you don't want to accidentally break that oath. It's not really something you do with someone you've just met.

( It reminds him of Teucer, making a pinkie promise and saying you keep it all your life or you get thrown on the ice. Everything in Snezhnaya is about extremes and most of it is about being cold. There's a metaphor there somewhere but he doesn't care to examine it right now. )

I assume you got a little plot of land and a cottage too even though you chose to come here?