Surprisingly, Alder felt... okay with it. He expected to be much more distraught, especially given Solvi's presence and the favor she had bestowed upon him for good luck, but something in his gut told him that Tiberii needed it more.
In the end he accepted the loss and moved on.
(After all, he'd won Northfall's first tournament, he thought with some smugness. Couldn't be too greedy.)
With only a small limp, he shuffled off in the direction of Solvi's scent, ready to get the awkward conversation of his failure out of the way. The trail lead him down, down the winding mountains of Northfall's claim, and his ears pricked forward with heightened curiosity as he detected another scent mingling with her own - it was surprisingly pleasant, almost sweet, but he couldn't quite place it. A wolf? No - not a wolf - but not really a plant, either -
Perplexed, he followed the Solvi-sweet-scent.
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- Alder is not actually Inuyasha, despite the evidence