Alari stared ahead stuck in his own thoughts trying to figure out what just happened, each conclusion he came to made no sense and he was only snapped out of his trance by Hotaru's voice. He brought a hand to his head and stood up realizing she was right they couldn't stand here and do nothing, taking a deep breath he calmed himself down a bit as he could still feel the connection with Larel which meant he was alive. He had a few choice questions to ask Kaori as well, too many things didn't make sense. If he was a commander why didn't he just kill Larel, they had no other jobs, and he had plenty of opportunities to do so while they were together why put them through something like this. Kaori...Murio whoever he was didn't seem that sadistic and on top of that he knew that language.
"I don't want to forget him either but we should be careful. If he knows the elder Youkai language he's stronger then he appears," Alari said brushing off the front of his kimono. 

Alari looked over at Mera seeing the look on her face, his eyes narrowed a bit before she cut the conversation off and started running. Alari quickly sprinted after the two, stopping alongside Mera as she spoke of what just happened. Alari grit his teeth at Mary contacting them, with everything going on he didn't like the idea of Mary being involved, he didn't disagree with Hotaru about Kaori but something about all this didn't add up, there were too many holes and unknown things ahead of them.
"The village he's speaking of is a small village, one of the smallest in the area. There is a field of flowers past it though," Alari said flipping through his book. "Why would he choose a place like that is beyond me,  he wouldn't have many places to hide Larel in a place like that and if he's been around us this long he probably knows how to counter most of the stuff we can do. Because of that I doubted he'd hide him in a forest where Mera could sense him."
Alari shoved his book back into his sleeve making sure to keep up the pace his eyes narrowing slightly at all of this.
"...none of this makes any sense," Alari said jumping over a bush. "Why is he doing all this, he could have killed Larel right there he had the opportunity...why give us a chance to get him back...that's nothing like the commanders. Something's wrong be careful this could be a trap."