Dominic's Aim.

It was the next day and Loki was taking a little break from his spirituality control training while roaming around the castle to explore it to its fullest.

'Hmm…if the Castle is alive, can't I see its status using my spirit Vision?' Loki wondered and traced a circle on his thumb finger with his index finger three times and entered Spirit Vision.

Looking around the castle, Loki found nothing of note.

The colours were all deeper and had become more contrasted but there was nothing else, according to his spirit vision that castle was dead.

'How could the castle even be alive in the first place?'

'How did Professor McGonagall find out about it in the first place?'

'Does it have anything to do with the Sorting Hat telling me that I need to be in Slytherin?'

Tracing along the corridors, Loki finally entered the huge tower filled with moving marble staircases that Loki had heard about throughout his week.

He hadn't seen the moving marble staircases yet since Dominic always used shortcuts and hidden passages while moving so Loki was excited to see the famed staircase.

A few students were running about, jumping over the odd staircase that Loki realised was defective when a first-year forgot to jump over it and had his leg go through the stair and become stuck in it.

The stairs looked to be moving around randomly, but Loki could see how there was intent behind each motion, the stairs always prepared themselves to catch any students that were arriving through the doors and dropped them in a spot closer to their destination, pranking the odd student that failed to pay attention to its intricacies.

The colours in Loki's spirit vision didn't indicate the stairs were alive but Loki felt he could see how such a thing might make the people believe the castle was alive.

'What a weird castle.'

Stepping on the set of stairs that had arrived in front of him, Loki let the stairs decide his destination and remained standing at its end.

The stairs spun around in a spiral, climbing higher with each circle, floating higher until it arrived on the seventh floor.

'Huh? What's here?' Loki wondered.

Stepping out into the corridor Loki turned around and thanked the stairs for letting him arrive here, "I don't know why you wanted me to come here, but thank you anyway."

And the stairs left without responding, going to catch the next student.

The corridor had no doors in it, so Loki walked toward the largest window on the wall.

There was a strange painting of a man teaching trolls how to perform a ballet while having dressed them appropriately with pink tutu and shoes. There were exactly four trolls being taught to dance.

'Huh, funny but strange. Who would need to teach trolls how to dance? It could be some sort of ritual for becoming a demigod or something?'

Stepping closer to the window, Loki's eyes adjusted to the light outside and soon he was privy to the most fantastic view in all of Hogwarts.

The forbidden forest, on the left, expanded off into the horizon and its dense cover left its undergrowth hidden. There were plenty of bird noises skipping along, while a few even peeked their head through the upper layers.

The black lake was visible in the distance to the right, and its waters remained as opaque as they had been when Loki sat beside them, not even the large Giant Squid was visible in the distance until some of its tentacles broke the surface occasionally.

'Nice view. I'd like to sit here and have tea if possible.'

Spending a little bit of time there, Loki walked back to the stairs and waited for one of them to come up to him so that he could leave, but for some reason, the stairs didn't want to move toward him.

'Huh? Why aren't the stairs coming up?'

It was only after a full five minutes of waiting that the stairs finally acknowledged Loki's presence and moved to help him come down.

'Finally! I thought I'd be stuck here for the rest of the day!'

Walking back down, Loki went to his usual spot near the black lake where he sat down and started to study the Ancient Runes book that he had borrowed from the library.

After a while, when he got bored of studying, he walked to the forbidden forest and began to collect the remaining ingredients for Sunny's advancement potion.

"Now all I need is Rose Oil. I can take it from Snape's cupboard in class on Monday."

"What do you think little guy?"

*Squeak* *Squeak* *Squeak*

"You know it is annoying to have to translate what you speak each time right? When will you gain the ability to speak? Susie gained it immediately after she drank the spectator potion."

*Squeak* *Squeak *Squeak*

"What? You want to meet Susie? Why? And you can't meet her, she's not real."

*Squeak* *Squeak* *Squeak*

"What do you mean you knew she wasn't real and you're not going to speak?"

Loki and Sunny argued on their way back to the castle when Sunny was forced to leave since Loki did not want to show anyone that Sunny existed yet.

After Loki walked back he ate dinner and went to Snape's office where he brewed the entire batch of Healing potions himself with Snape supervising him and smacking him on the head if he made any mistakes.

This time he had to walk to the Matron himself and he did since he was currently waiting after knocking on the marble door.

"Madam Pomfrey! You have a delivery!" Loki shouted.

The doors opened and Madam Pomfrey looked at Loki before focusing on the crate of potions behind him.

"Oh did you brew this batch dear?" Madam Pomfrey asked with a warm smile on her face as she observed Loki.

"Yes Mam! Brewed by me but perfected by Professor Snape. So you don't have to worry about a thing!" Loki said as he softly landed the crates in front of Madam Pomfrey's foot.

"Remember little one, come straight to me if you need any help." Madam Pomfrey advised by patting Loki's head. "The Hospital is open 24 hours of the day, all 7 days of the week."

'Why is she telling me that?'

'What will I need help that I'll have to come to her?'

"Sure Mam! Goodnight!" Loki left with a short greeting.

Having come by the shorter route, Loki attempted to take the more scenic route this time by visiting the clock tower that had a large pendulum swinging inside it.

As Loki walked by he felt amazed by the soundless motion of the large stone pendulum. He also felt a strange sense of attraction to it, like he could look at it and get lost in time just looking.

But he soon left and pranced back to the dormitory where he greeted Dominic.

"What do you want to become Dominic?" Loki asked casually as they walked back to their rooms.

"Oh? Me? I just wanted to become an Unspeakable."

"Unspeakable? What's that? Like do you do unspeakable things?"

"Haha~ Pretty much. It's a department in the Ministry of Magic that deals with a few esoteric and magical cases."

'Beyonder cases?'

'I'll see if Kreacher knows any of Walburga's contacts in this department so that I can help Dominic get accepted easier…although I doubt anyone would reject him with his perfect grades in the first place.'

"Why're you so tired today?" Loki then asked.

"Nothing much, I'd visited Hogsmeade to take my mind off a few things but something unexpected happened.", Dominic replied politely.

"What happened?" 'Something related to Beyonders? Didn't Aunt Cassandra say from the fourth year you could participate in missions or something?'

"Nothing you need to worry about. Good night and sweet dreams lazy boy."

"Good night Dominic."

Loki and Dominic soon parted ways after which Loki fell asleep since he was tired from all the exploring he had done that day.

"Good night Sunny."

*Squeak* *Squeak*

"Yeah I know, I'll pay you later for lying to you about Susie."

*Squeak*