Alavae frowned slightly as he listened to Haleb's story. "I see. It truely sounds a desolate and wretched place then to live. But why come north this far? You must have had some reason to come so far; you must have passed through lands much better than yours already. The feeling to tarry and perhaps even settle in one of them must have been present to you," he continued, regarding the man with his firm gaze still.