Aulfr turned at the sound of the new assassin's suite door opening, taking a moment to see what was up. He paused, momentarily, to watch Aleksandra strutt out and head opposite of the courtyard, presumably to the water. He was already figuring what she had in mind; he had also already figured what he was going to do about it.

Turning back to his warriors, all of which who had paused to stare, he barked, "Eyes on mine, [b]now![/b]" They all straightened from their various sparring positions, all of them tearing their eyes away from the Ardanian sauntering about behind him, to stare at his own. He held all of their eyes, continuing, "Anyone who looks away from me will spar with me. One-on-one, no exceptions, wooden weapons." Several groaned; Aulfr grinned, not unlike a shark. They all dreaded being 'conditioned' by Aulfr, when he brought out wooden staves to beat them with. 

He temporarily closed his eyes when he heard her voice behind him, challenging his men. Two of them could hardly keep up with him, too large to effectively take advantage of Aulfr's relatively small frame. Of course, Aleksandra was tiny compared to the largest of them, but he wasn't training the berserkers to be fast, he wanted them to be smart. Although, Aleksandra did suggest a good idea- it would do both his men and Aleksandra good to train with someone other than each other, or with just Aulfr, in Aleksandra's case.

When he opened his eyes, he found two pairs of eyes quickly flick back to his- immediately, he pointed out the two and jerked his head to the side. Expectant dread creeped on the edges of their faces as they withdrew from the raggedy line of Aulfr's soldiers, to stand by the way.

Focusing back on the other eighteen soldiers, all of them dressed in nothing more than shorter leather trousers, he gave them all the evil eye. After a moment, he made his decision. "Shark and Wolf teams, you're up to fight Aleksandra. You'll be fighting in pairs; the leader of both of your groups will be paired." Ten men had stepped forward, five to each of the teams. Both of their respective leaders glanced at each other, taking an extra step forward, as Aulfr designated them to be the first to fight Aleksandra.

"Five minutes per match. Aleksandra is not allowed to leave two times your arms' length, nor is anyone allowed to break anything- I don't want anyone injured and therefore hindered. Whichever pair manages to pin her within five minutes and without breaking anything gets two hundred silver and two days off."

Turning to glance at her, and her rather attractive form- he did make sure to run a studying eye up and down her body, just to make sure she was in good shape, of course- he added, "And a kiss from her, of course."

Taking several steps to the side, leaving nothing between the leader pair and Aleksandra, he snapped, "I expect the best. Either of you show less than that and you'll be getting some [i]combat conditioning,[/i] like those two buggars over there. Go now!"