You escaped from the coyote--but you would not have escaped from the other.

That is all I can tell you.

But you will be safe here.
Those who seek your life will soon believe that you are dead, and then we will let you go back.

Is that not a kind fate for one who deserves to be cut into bits and fed to the ravens ?" "You will tell me nothing more, Jean ?" the engineer asked.
"Nothing--except that while I would like to kill you I have sympathy for you.

That, perhaps, is because I once lived in the South.