Chapter 95: Vision Quest
"Great I'll get Fish and Wildlife to register the nest and band the babies. I knew there was a pair but before today we couldn't place the nesting site, so this is helpful. I'll look the other way since I now how things can be while you're on a quest, if I need to I'll use magic to smooth things over.
Now looking at you, you look like you could use a good meal. But you probably aren't ready to stomach much he pulled a roast beef sandwich with all the trimmings from his cooler. He pulled out a large cup and a wand and a second later the cup was full of hot beef broth. He gave it to Harry. "Where did the stick come from?" he asked.
"The wolves brought it to me. See, you can see where the pups played with it and where the adult carried it."
"Tell me about the wolves and are you sure they were wolves not coyotes?"
"They were wolves seven adults five pups. I slipped when a rock shifted under me and it dumped me in the den. I hit my head and came to when the pups licked me. I was a playmate to them for the night. The mum pretty much ignored me after I threw myself to the den floor in response to her growl. The dad brought the stick in and dropped it in front of me. Like the feathers it felt like I was supposed to take it."
"Everything in the park is supposed to stay in the park federal law prohibits taking anything from the park. But I'm going to allow you to take the juniper branch since campers on the campground if they found a branch like that on the ground would probably just burn it. I'll transfigure something to take it's place since you were so cooperative about giving up the token from the eagle."
"Thank you sir."
"Yes thank you nephew." Yiska added his thanks.
"Not a problem tell Aunt to send me some of those pumpkin cookies and we're all good."
Problems solved Yiska once again steered them towards home.
Sirius chewed on his thumb nail only to be reminded when it twinged at him he had been doing that entirely to often. Part of him still couldn't believe he let Yiska talk him into letting Harry go off on his own into the wilderness. All in the name of finding himself, especially since Harry wasn't going to be allowed to eat on this little adventure.
But Harry's magic had been flaring at the drop of a pin with no rhyme or reason and he really couldn't seem to center no matter the exercise. He had spent hours on the phone with Beth getting her input and Rachel had concurred that trying something out of the box was better than doing nothing because if anything Harry's magic had been getting stronger and more out of control daily.
They had three weeks before they were to go to San Francisco so Harry could train with Rose Tyler for his metamorphamagus talents. But his magic had to be centered before that happened. They had been drawing a total blank until Yiska had come up with his analogy to explain the problem and his suggestion on how to handle it. At a loss for anything else they had gone ahead.
When Winry heard about it from Beth, the day Yiska and Harry had left; she had verbally reamed Sirius that Harry was to young to go through the deprivation that came with a traditional vision quest and that he already had been through a ton by removing his horcrux. What the HELL was Sirius thinking when he agreed to Yiska's plan. In the three days since then Sirius had not slept or eaten and had been a basket case.
Jenny had shook her at Sirius as he endlessly limped around the tent to the trailer to the hogan to the tent again pausing only briefly to look to the southeast. And stopping only when it was too dark to see. She told him, "Yiska has guided many young men on their journey, and while Harry is one of the youngest he has ever led he is also one of the strongest." But still Sirius worried.
At three that afternoon, Sirius' pacing came to an abrupt halt. Yiska's truck was coming down the road. As soon as the truck pulled up, Sirius was there opening the passenger side door. And there was Harry sleeping with a bit of a half smile on his face. He was filthy but whole and his magic didn't seem ready to lash out at anyone like it had been before he left. He looked at Yiska, "It worked then?"
Yiska nodded. "His magic is strong but his heart is even stronger. His quest was completed more quickly than I expected most of which I would attribute to the discipline with which you have raised him. He fell asleep a half an hour ago but he'll probably wake up for dinner.
From here I will give him a journal and some guided exercises, to encourage him to work through his feelings and to strengthen his magical control but he found his center and his spirit guides. His spirit guides were physical as well which goes hand in hand with him wielding great power in the future. I would encourage you to spend time with him, but before you do…"
"Yes?"
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