first full moon ☾

[werewolfoflondon]

[phone - open]



That's not precisely how I expected to wake up yesterday, but all things considered, it could be worse.

Well then, introductions, I suppose. Best as I can manage, at least. My name is Remus, and I assure you that I am a completely uninteresting human being. So uninteresting, I can't rightly think how to introduce myself, apparently.

[sigh] I always was crap at this.

I'm still-- still trying to work everything out here, so if someone would be so kind as to entertain a few questions? I realize we're all relatively in the dark here, but...

Ah, never mind.

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[bespell]

[She grins back. As awful as she felt at the time, it's still pretty funny.] I can't imagine he would. Not that I did it on purpose, of course.

[werewolfoflondon]

No, don't worry. You hardly have to justify yourself. I would vomit on Pads too, given the opportunity.

[Remus smirks and glances out the window. Still hasn't really managed to get over the strangeness of it.]

Are we expected to go to Muggle school here?

[bespell]

It seems to be the case. I've biked past the schools--there are two here--and we've managed to arrive right as the holidays started. It's a must thing, just as they're forcing the adults to go to work.

[She shifts on the bed, tucking her legs underneath her] They want to make us all into good little citizens.

[werewolfoflondon]

Well. We've never really been much good at that, now have we? [Remus smirks, almost imperceptibly.]

So. No wand, no magic. No scars. All terribly normal and dull.

[bespell]

Are you really... [Lily hesitates visibly, looking away out of grace than anything else.] Are you disconcerted that they're gone? Your scars, I mean? [She's never really asked. One doesn't go around asking people about their looks, and her curiosity's always been the polite, restrained sort.]

[werewolfoflondon]

That's a word for it. [It's a conscious effort for Remus to not be reaching up to touch his face constantly. That's all he'd been doing yesterday, before he he simply -- stubbornly -- told himself to stop.

It's not really that big a deal, is it? Despite the fact that yes, it is. It's huge...]

I'll get used to it. Bit more piqued about not having my wand, to be honest.

[bespell]

They keep saying those we're getting that, except-- [She hesitates visibly, looking down at her hands. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and in her case, it's certainly little, but it's a heap more than the others know, so far.]

[werewolfoflondon]

Except...?

[Remus tilts his head down a bit, trying to meet Lily's eyes even as she averts them.]

[bespell]

There is another way for receiving things from home, but it comes at a price. It's something we have to do at the post office, but we lose something in return.

[werewolfoflondon]

Lose something? Like what?

[bespell]

There is no sure way of knowing in advance, but some people have lost limbs, or memories...

It sounds too awful to contemplate.

[werewolfoflondon]

[Remus' face screws up for a moment, and he shakes his head.]

Not sure if getting my magic back is worth that. You?

[bespell]

[Lily has yet to run into anyone desperate enough, or perhaps just dumb enough, to have made the trade, so she shakes her head.] If it was a last resort, perhaps. I'm perfectly willing to wait with all my limbs intact.

[werewolfoflondon]

Quite right.

[Remus draws a slow breath, scrubbing a hand back through his hair.]

Still, sorry you're stuck with our lot. Suppose there aren't many people you'd less prefer to accompany you to a strange place against your will.

[bespell]

[It may have been an uncharacteristic gesture of her back at Hogwarts, with many eyes on them, but Lily reaches forward to pat him on the shoulder, smiling gently.] Don't think like that. We're in this together. We don't have to be facing an unknown, inexplicable danger to be decent to one another, either.

[werewolfoflondon]

[Remus smiles and pats her hand gently.] Well, we don't. Can't say the same for James and Sirius, at times.

[bespell]

We'll just have to make sure they stay alive and sane, then. [She squeezes Remus's shoulder.] I've kept Black in one piece until now, at least.

[werewolfoflondon]

For an entire month, I can't imagine how you managed that. [Remus laughs quietly.] But thank you for that. We're rather fond of him. It would be a shame to have him in all separate pieces.

[bespell]

Not that death is... Permanent, here. [Even though, the very idea of death distressing, regardless of its permanence.] I wouldn't want anyone hurt. There's been so much senseless incidents here to begin with.

[werewolfoflondon]

Not permanent? [Oh, that just doesn't seem to sit well with him. Not at all.]

That's... odd.

[bespell]

There were some people hurt very recently, and now they're walking around as if nothing had happened.

[werewolfoflondon]

You're sure they were dead, then? Not just hurt?

[Remus can think of half a dozen ways, just off the top of his head, for a fatally-injured person to carry on wandering the world. Most of them involve potions, but that was probably only because he was--

Merlin, but just yesterday, he'd been at Hogwarts studying for exams.

Remus scrubs vigorously at his face for a moment, trying to tap against his own reality again; find his center, no matter how off-kilter it's presently been thrown.]

Not that I reckon it matters, if they're alright again.

[bespell]

[Lily hesitates. No one she's met here has actually died and returned from the death, even if she's seen the dead bodies of others.]

Be careful, that's all I'm asking.

[werewolfoflondon]

'Careful' is a rather relative term when one associates with Sirius Black and James Potter, you know that. [Remus smirks, then shrugs.] But I shall try my best to keep us out of trouble. All of us. ...not that they ever listen to me.

[bespell]

They'll think this is a game. You know how it is. Everything is a game to them. [if Remus's pillow was sentient, it'd be yelping for help at the force Lily's squeezing it with.]