The next four days seemed to drag on for Lorelei, she wondered if her prey was feeling the same. 'More than likely.' She wouldn't blame him one bit if he decided to back out of this test of faith at the last minute. Lorelei herself wondered if she had the strength to actually follow through with it. She could barely remeber the pain of an actual transformation, only that it was something she had hoped never to feel again. 'So why are you doing this?' Lorelei asked herself. Shaking her head, she was begining to wonder that very thing herself. 'It's a game. Everything in life is a game. I want to see what Remus Lupin is made of.'
Looking in the mirror as she readied for the school day ahead, her eyes fell to the amulet that hung around her neck. Narcissa was right. The thing at the end of the chain wasn't the prettiest piece of jewelry in all of existence. Yet to her, it was beautiful, it meant a chance at a real life. 'Whatever happens tonight, you must make sure not to lose this.' Her hand clutched the silver disk. 'You can make it through this. One night of pain. One transformation. And you won't be alone.' Alone...the word drifted around Lorelei's head, like a haunting melody. Even though she had lived a normal exsistence, more or less, since the creation of the amulet, she still felt alone. Her parent's kept her in their home, but something inside said it was diffrent that what it had been. It wasn't out of love for their daughter. It was out of obligation, and for appearance sake. After all, how could they explain her disappearance. And even now, she surrounded herself with her housemates, but kept most of them at a distance. And even those she let close enough...they didn't know her secret. 'They would turn their back on me in an instant if they were to find out.' That is why she was, in all reality, really alone. 'But it doesn't have to be that way anymore.' A small voice said inside her head. 'No.' Lorelei told herself. 'I'm simply playing a game.'
Lorelei finished getting ready for the day, and headed off for classes, not that she expected to be able to keep her mind on the subjects at hand. She was a fair student under usual circumstances, but today her heart and mind was on anything but her studies.
Remus splashed cold water on his face, trying to wake himself up. He hadn't slept that well, his mind running at full speed wouldn't allow it. And when he had managed, he was confronted with nightmares of what could happen with the coming night. Tonight him and the rest of the Marauders would blindfold and escort a Slytherin student to the Shrieking Shack. 'Sounds like a great start to a prank.' Remus couldn't help but think, he just hoped it wasn't one being played on him. 'Think positive Moony.' He let out a bit of a snort, and shook his head. "I'm putting my future in the hands of a bloody Slytherin."
Remus headed for classes, wondering how he was going to manage to keep his mind on his schoolwork. The more he tried not to think about the upcoming night, the more he did just that. 'I hope that having the rest of the guys there isn't going to be a problem.' He hadn't come out and told her who would be there, only that they wouldn't be alone. 'I wonder what it's going to be like...to have another werewolf there.' That was one of the few things Remus Lupin had never experienced...Spending the full moon with one of his own kind.
After sun set, and before moon rise
Lorelei met up with Remus just outside the castle. "Bringing the whole gang with you?" she asked a bit nervously, noticing Sirius, James, and Peter standing off to the shadows. "Isn't that a bit dangerous for them?"
"We've got ways around it." Remus replied, then held up a red scarf. "I really do hate to do this, but..."
"I understand." Lorelei said cutting him off, "Go ahead." and she turned, allowing Remus to put the blindfold over her eyes. She couldn't see, and the feeling was quite terrifying, but something told her she could trust Remus, that he wouldn't let anything happen.
Once he tied the scarf in place over Lorelei's eyes, and he was positive she couldn't see, he motioned the others forward. Five shadowy figures crossed Hogwarts grounds. One among the number changed form, slipped underneath the swinging branches of the Whopping Willow. Once those branches ceased to be a threat, one figure led another down into the tunnel, followed shortly by the others.