The woods seemed to grow thicker and harsher as he struggled to make his way to the village. Though the walk was long it gave him plenty of time to think about the best way to persuade the werewolves into helping them in the fight against he-who-shall-not-be-named. He had to make sure that he got there with in the next few days because the full moon would rise in a short time and he wanted to be there before it happened. The wind howled through the trees as life started to awaken around him. Normally he would have just arraprated to the village, but these woods had been protected against such things. Wizards many years ago had set these spells so to keep the weres trapped inside its boundaries but over time they had become twisted into keeping those with magic out. That was the exact reason that he had been chosen to speak to these wolves. The only reason that he could get in to see them is because he was one of them him self.
It had taken him nearly two days to reach the outskirts of the village. From here it would take him at least another day to reach the village's heart. Reaching a break in the trees he was shocked to find a small house resting next to a lake, which was in rather poor shape. There were obvious signs that a wolf lived in the house as well. Aside from the strong smell of wolf there were long claw marks in the walls of the house and near by trees. The thing that confused him though was that there were many smells surrounding the house and all were wolves. He carefully moved closer to the door to see if anyone was home that would be able to help him. Being so close to the full moon his senses were heightened but still he could hear no movement in the home. He had to make his way over the uneven ground of the clearing toward the house. When he passed a window at the front of the house out of the corner of his eye he saw something dart among the trees away from the house. In the few seconds it took for him to look away from the door, he was roughly thrown on the ground what felt like a knee pressed firmly in to his back.
"Who are you and what do you want?" A soft voice asked him close to his ear. The voice was distantly female and held no malice but it did have a definite tang of fear in it. After a few seconds a he noticed a strange thing about the smell around him. There were two both female one was a wolf like him but the other one wasn't she was something else entirely. When he did not reply the knee in his back pressed harder causing him to arch his neck a little. From his limited line of sight he could see that there was a girl sitting on the ground in front of him. She was dressed in a dark brown skirt with a sky blue top and no shoes on her feet.
"You may want to answer" prompted the girl "my sister does not take kindly to people creeping around our home" In response to the girls state me came a chuckle from behind him.
"That's right sissie, now hurry up and speak so that I can get back to my book" Replied the girl on his back.
"My name is Remus Lupin. I was on my way to the village when I saw your house and thought that maybe you would allow me to rest here for a little before I go on." The words were hard to get out because of the pressure on his back but once they were out he was released. Lupin wearily pulled him self to his feet and took a good look around him. He was shocked to see that the two girls in front of him looked nearly identical. They both had the same long black hair with lazy waves in it and near electric blue eyes. The only real differences was the way they were dressed and that the girl he had seen before had silver specks in her eyes while her sister had gold.
"Sis what do you think? It is near the full moon after all...do you think its safe?" ask the girl with silver in her eyes.
"Yea its fine plus I can take care of him if he gets out of hand." Lupin gulped at that because when she said it a dark look over came her eyes. The look had lasted only a seconded but that was enough to make him weary of her.
"I wont be here for that long , I wish to get to the village before the full moon arrives." Both girls shook their heads that the same time.
"That's not a good idea" Replied the gold eyed girl.
"They don't take well to strange wolves around the full moon, far to jumpy for their own good. They would kill you in a heart beat." The silver-eyed girl warned, the look of fear returning her eyes.
"The fact that you are a wizard won't help you either. Its best you wait if you want to live that is, but its your choice." Muttered the gold-eyed girl as she turned and walked away. Lupin stared after her, a shocked look on his face.
" We are magic also, we both are, that's why we live here instead of with the rest of them. They don't take to kindly to our kind even if you are a wolf." With that statement she turned and followed her sister in to the house.
Lupin stood staring where they had been before following them into the house and closing it behind him. The inside of the house was in much better shape than the outside. It was very obvious that two very different personalities live in the house. The dark hard wood floors had claw marks in though they looked more like some one was just walking around with them not fighting. Light music that he could not place could be heard floating from room to room in the small house. The dark colors of the walls and floor were off set by the neon colored knick-knacks around the room.
"Took you long enough." Muttered the gold-eyed girl not even bothering to look up and just kept reading. "By the way my name is Sbylle and the girl that you were staring at is my sister Selena." Lupin just nodded his head and look around the room awkwardly not really knowing what he was supposed to do now.
"You can sit down, you know the chair isn't going to eat you." Came a voice from behind him. He quickly whipped around, coming face to face with Selena. She gave him a soft smile before settling down on the floor next to her sister's chair.
"May I ask you a little about your selves since I will be staying here for a few days?" Questioned Lupin making sure to keep himself looking as nonthreatening as possible.
The girls just looked at each other from a moment before Sbylle answered. "You can ask what you want but that doesn't mean we will answer." Lupin took it as a good sign he had neither been threatened nor kicked out yet so he figured it was safe to continue.
"You are both witches, correct?" Selena nodded while Sbylle just stared at her book ignoring him. "If so how are you here? I can tell one of you is a wolf but the other is not, so how could you get through the woods?"
Taking it upon herself to answer his questions since it was obvious that her sister wasn't about to, Selena took a deep breath before starting her tale.
