Everything after it, however, Handy had to get creative. He stayed as clear away from how involved he got with changelings as he could, but that proved impossible. Between the scandals with the Equestrians and the Enclavers, he struggled to keep a more important secret: old magic, and his involvement in it. He feigned his ignorance of it, but ultimately had to at least acknowledge that that was what he had been hunting, and why he did not immediately make his way back home. The changelings just raised so many more questions for them. By the end of it, he had to promise to show them the bounty of changeling gold he had gotten for his troubles, just to prove his story.