You speak as if many before you have not made the attempt. Myself included.

[ many hands have attempted to teach alphinaud to swim.. alisaie spent much of her young life trying to wrangle him into the water tbh, but the boy is simply incapable. it's fine. alisaie likes to be better than him at something, at least, even if it's something so mundane as swimming.

if nothing else, however.. it earns a soft, if weary smile. ]

But aye. Let us be about it, then - the sooner we get moving, the sooner we will find a comfortable bed.