Northstar Vale shed a little light

For a long moment after Hadraniel explained, Tambourine remained silent. He was processing the other male's words, trying to parse and make sense of them. It reminded him of his conversation with Freyja. He had left that particular encounter feeling both enlightened and imbecilic all at once. He would probably come away from this one in the same mindset. He loved learning things about the great big world, though it inevitably left him feeling as if he knew nothing at all.

"So... kind of like an Alpha?" he wondered aloud after doing his best to stitch the facts together in his head. "Except that a god can be an object?" That part threw him. "What kind of object?" Tambourine looked around himself, silvery gaze falling on the nearest object (aside from the wolves themselves): "Like a pine cone?"