Alder wood, Unicorn hair, 10 3/4, brittle flexibility
Alder and Unicorn Hair, 10 3/4″, brittle
For all that Alder wands can be quite unyielding by nature, their masters are not always annoyingly obstinate, but more often helpful and considerate; Alder tends to seek it’s opposite, or at least the notably different. Matched to Unicorn you have a stubborn wood with a helpful core. The length here indicates perhaps a lack of confidence, and the flexibility likewise - a hardness more prone to breaking than to flexing. Perhaps that is part of where the lack of confidence here comes from: perhaps this is a person who has been stubborn before, to ill effect, and is now markedly different and wary of what will happen if they are too stubborn again.