A Future Untouched by Intervention

Simply pointing out that a path existed and truly guiding someone onto a particular path in their future were two entirely different things.

If the former was merely a small favor, then the latter meant becoming deeply involved, truly taking responsibility for someone's life. That was not something to joke about...

Usually, only parents bore such a heavy responsibility for someone. Of course, many people failed to realize that when they became parents themselves, such as Barty Crouch Sr.

From that perspective, was Barty Jr. really looking for a new father?

Manus had a headache, not only because of Barty Jr.'s expectations of him at that moment, but also because Barty Jr. had told him that the small favors he had done for others in the past had essentially been acts of overstepping boundaries.

Had Elizabeth realized that too, which was why she had avoided his help like the plague?

Elizabeth: No. She had just found Pandora, who could happily study herself silly, a little terrifying.

"This isn't something I can decide so easily. Let me think about it."

On that fine, cloudless day, Manus did not continue stargazing late into the night. Instead, he returned to the dormitory early.

Bellows was already asleep. Manus lay alone on his Four-Poster Bed, staring at the ceiling. After some thought, his consciousness sank into the Mental World.

"What do you think I should do?"

Huginn, Muninn, and the Demiguise surrounded Manus. Oh, and Yuke was not far away, along with the two former foals.

They were called former foals because, after joining the Soul System and having their innate defects repaired, both foals had undergone tremendous changes in a short period of time. Their shared change was a dramatic increase in their growth rate.

In less than a year, Pegasus and Sleipnir