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Chapter Eight
Remus was foraging for food. He had felt sick after eating the rabbit, he always did after he killed something, even when his father had liked him and they had gone fishing, he had felt sick. So he was looking for plants or mushrooms that would satisfy his hunger. Two days had gone by since the incident with the centaurs, he had five days to find another place out of their territory. As he looked for something that would keep him sustained, he wished that he had maybe paid more attention in Herbology. He also wondered what they were doing at the castle. He had to tell himself many, many times not to do this, but he always ended up doing it anyways. As he wandered around on all fours, eyes peeled for anything to eat that wasn't alive, he thought of Quidditch, and the warm Common Room, and Dumbledore and how he had given Remus a chance when no one else would. He felt his eyes burn, but he didn't cry. He rather fancied that he had cried his eyes dry, but in reality he had just gotten used to the thoughts. They hurt, like the bite from the original werewolf, but it was a dull ache, one that he had gotten used to.
With a sigh, Remus pulled a spring onion out of the ground. Looking at it dangling there, he made a face. He hated onions. But, hunger made him…well…hungry. He ate the foul tasting thing and looked for more. With his lack of food, he would eat anything that would give him sustenance. A large mushroom seemed to call to him, he could smell it and almost hear it, but when he touched it, it seemed to burn his skin. Crap, it must be one of those poisonous mushrooms Professor Rosemary was telling them about earlier that year. He sat down, knees sore from crawling so close to the ground. As silence settled around him, he realized that he could hear a stream close by. Thank God for super sensitive hearing! He managed to stand on his two feet and staggered off to look for the water.
When he stumbled in on the clearing, he stared in amazement. There was a full grown unicorn drinking at the crystalline stream. It's white coat gleamed softly in the sun, white hooves glinting faintly. The unicorn's horn seemed to be made from diamond and was spiraled in a fantastic way. He heard the sound it made as it drank its fill, a musical sound. He could feel its innocence and beauty from where he was standing. He realized that his breath had caught in his throat and let it out, quietly.
It was not quiet enough though. The unicorn looked up, and Remus noticed it's eyes were silver, like its hooves. He stared at it one second longer before it ran from him. He sank to his knees, knowing that the reason the equine beauty had run was because of him. Because of his condition, his curse. He dragged himself to the brook and drank from the water that the unicorn had drunk from. It revived his severely depleted strength and he found the energy to walk on his feet back to the clearing that was to be his home until the week of the full moon.
Soooooo, another chapter up. I know they are short, but i think i explained before that they oly take up about a page in Word. That's how they are written. Anyway, i have another story thinger all written up, but unforutnately, I lost the book where I wrote it down. It really sucks. Anyway, I'm thinking about writing a songfic, once i figure out how too, that is. Review!
