"Do you mean a Heartweaver can change the outcome of fate through their thoughts?"
"Exactly."
Juanjuan nodded, giving an affirmative answer.
But after a pause, it continued, "One thing needs to be clarified, though: Heartweavers generally cannot discover their own talent."
Angel understood. "In other words, Heartweavers don't change an event's outcome through conscious intent?"
Juanjuan nodded. "Yes. They don't know about their talent, so all their changes to fate are unconscious or subconscious."
"Take Plump Sprout, for example."
Plump Sprout was a Heartweaver, but until today, she had been completely unaware that she possessed that ability.
This was actually very common.
To give a simple example, a Heartweaver's ability meant that when she strongly wanted to accomplish something, she would most likely succeed.
But most of the time, people's thoughts were a tangled mix.
She wanted to achieve her goal, of course, but her mind would keep anticipating obstacles ahead and considering how to overcome them. Some problems yielded solutions; those that did not were set aside for the time being, awaiting a turn for the better.
Yet the power through which a Heartweaver influenced fate did not respond to these surface-level considerations. It responded to the underlying expectations buried beneath her consciousness, which even she had never confronted.
Even if she worked hard on her plans and refused to give up, if she vaguely believed deep down that "there are obstacles here, and I might find this hard to accomplish," events would slide toward failure.
Of course, she would not necessarily fail in the end. Instead, her surface thoughts and subconscious would begin pulling against each other, possibly producing a result that was neither success nor failure.
Such outcomes were essentially the norm for ordinary people.
And every shift in this tug-of-war happened without a sound.
Plump Sprout