Index: src/routes/activitypub.js
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--- src/routes/activitypub.js	(revision 04d5aebb050cd1c96020a822d03370dbf5b13399)
+++ src/routes/activitypub.js	(revision fa33214eb34752fafee25fc95942f470701006f8)
@@ -254,4 +254,8 @@
 queueRoute('offers', (id, slug, me) => Guardianship.offersCollection(id, slug, me));
 queueRoute('follows', (id) => Guardianship.followsCollection(id));
+// §5.3 turned around (shaer-p729): what this ward has asked to follow, still
+// waiting on its guardians. Owner-only like the rest — who a child wants to
+// follow is nobody else's business.
+queueRoute('outgoing-follows', (id, slug, me) => Guardianship.outgoingFollowsCollection(id, slug, me));
 queueRoute('wards', (id, slug) => Guardianship.wardsCollection(id, slug));
 // Availability (FEP-633c 3.6.1) is never public: the ward reads its
@@ -696,5 +700,7 @@
   // 201 Created → Location header (AP spec); 202 Accepted for side-effect verbs.
   if (out.status === 201 && out.url) res.set('Location', out.url);
-  return res.status(out.status || 202).json({ ok: true, id: out.id, url: out.url });
+  // `state` carries a third outcome the app must be able to tell apart from a
+  // plain success: a ward's follow held for its guardians (§5.3, shaer-p729).
+  return res.status(out.status || 202).json({ ok: true, id: out.id, url: out.url, ...(out.state ? { state: out.state } : {}) });
 });