Probably because they hadn't expected the so-called punishment to actually be so mild, the hunter siblings didn't react for a long time after hearing Gawain. Only after Gawain repeated his question did Red-Nose Tom nod dazedly. "Yes… My sister and I can find the other settlements."
The homeless refugees would wander everywhere between the territories. Typically, their routes had no order to speak of. They trudged in the places that nobody knew of and would also die in places that nobody knew of. However, on the whole, the areas they settled down in had fixed boundaries.
These boundaries were usually the remote wilderness in between the various aristocratic territories. And the north of the White River, east of Tanzan Mine, and south of Kant territory was such an area.