"I'm not clear on the connection all the questions have to whether me occupying unclaimed territory will be catastrophic for neighbors."

Are there people looking for you? Are they dangerous? Are they like you? What abilities do you have, and what abilities would anyone who might come after you have? If you have children, what abilities will they have? For how long will you want to eat dew and leave your neighbors alone, and under what circumstances would you decide to do diffferently? Who would stop you if you did? 

"I can't have children. Most likely less than a week if I find a place where I can live undisturbed for that time and thereafter I would bother occupants of bordering territories even less. I'm not sure what you mean by the last question."

If I set up camp near my neighbors doing something strange, they know who to ask about my behavior, and from whom to receive assurances that it doesn't endanger them, and who to retaliate against if it does.

"I am entangled with someone but am no longer associating with her and do not otherwise have a court at this time."

Some conversation results. Then another note. 

I really need more to go on here. Would it be better if we spoke without an audience?

"I don't have any particular suspicions about your audience that I don't have about you alone."

What makes you say that you only need a week?

"It might be less than that. - Although, now that I think about it, it might be a week in terms of the local daycycle, not a subjective week. I don't know yet."

I would really like an answer to the question I just asked you.

"And if we somehow factor out this net I am still in you are much more pleasant to converse with than anybody else of your species I've met, but that doesn't make me inclined to trust you very far."

I think that if you asked any of our neighbors and neglected to mention that I was considering trading you a map, they would say that they trusted me to protect my people and react predictably to provocation and not start fights and not endanger anyone and to do all of this even when it is a great deal of effort with very little personal benefit, but they would not agree on much beyond that.

If you told them about the map I think they would say I was a dangerous idiot and should not be trusted at all, which is one of the reasons I want to be very sure before I give you the map.

Sigh. "Is there something that wouldn't work about verbal directions?"

The immediate areas near here are all claimed; I don't want to give you assurances that mistakenly guide you into someone else's territory. 

If you go very far in that direction it's very cold but I think no one bothers claiming anything.

"That might be fine."

If it's not, you could come back here and reconsider what you're inclined to share.

"Maybe I could."

He gestures to someone. They pull the net away.

"How far?" she asks.

How fast do you fly?

"I can do seventy miles an hour under good condtions but these aren't. That might have me slowed down by half."

Twenty-two hours, then.

"I'd probably push it harder if I'm trying not to need to stop to sleep in the middle. Is there a landmark?"

How often does your species require sleep?

"Ideally about once every twenty-four hours or so."