learn to swim under the ice

Moments later, Faine was asking the young man why he had come back down to Auster. Did he still have that itch to explore? He grinned, because he had to admit that he did. That's why he'd chosen to sharpen his skills here instead of in some place in Boreas he had been to half a dozen times. "You could say that," Alarik chuckled, enjoying the teasing smile the woman gave him. He didn't want to make her uncomfortable again, but she really was a lovely woman and he was attempted to say so. Again. "I came to find some good place to hunt, so I could sharpen up my skills before the alpha of Celestial tests me on them. But instead I found a beach, and you." He smirked.