User blog comment:Skyzy/10 Things the Mountain Men did wrong (besides not realize Lovejoy hadn't reported for duty in a few days)/@comment-26564154-20150705011007/@comment-26247132-20150705012839

All they had to do is reach out to Camp Jaha and say, "hey look, we've got your kids. Let's talk." Then, they could have held some sort of peace summit where the Mountain Men agree to share their resources and knowledge with the Sky People as well as their land if the Sky People can help them stop killing Grounders for their blood by donating bone marrow to them. The Sky People seem fairly reasonable and their Chancellor is a bleeding heart so I'm sure she would agree to it, if nothing else than to stop the killing of the Grounders.