Once safely in one of the rooms of the Shrieking Shack, Remus removed the blindfold from over Lorelei's eyes. She looked around, allowing her eyes to adjust to the light, and attempt to figure out where she was. The dishevelled boards, which let light from the outside shine in at weird angles. She turned to take in the three boys who stood in front of her. 'Wait a minute...three? One is missing?' "Where's the fourth one of you?" Lorelei asked, a bit nervous.
Sirius held up a rather large brown rat. "Right here." he turned the creature around so it faced him. "Isn't that right Peter?" The rodent let out a squeak. Lorelei looked a bit unbelieving between the three remaining boys.
"You see Lorelei," Remus began, "I have the company of my mates every month. They are animagi."
Lorelei blinked a couple times letting this new information register fully. This group was proving to be full of surprises. Taking a deep breath, Lorelei reached up behind her neck to undo the clasp of her necklace. 'No time like the present I suppose.' "I need a safe place to put this." she said, presenting the amulet on it's chain.
"There's a nail," Remus began, turning twords the one wall, "over this way." Lorelei joined him by the wall, and he showed her the protruding nail. It took Remus standing on his tip-toes to get the chain over the nail. "It should be safe their." Lorelei nodded in agreement. The two turned back to face James and Sirius, Lorelei wavered a bit. "You two better change." Remus told the boy, "It's coming up." he winced slightly with the last word.
"See you in the morning Moony." Sirius told his friend before changing into the form a big black dog. James nodded to Remus, then he too changed, being replaced by a large white stag. It was hardly a heartbeat later that the moon rose and pain surged through the two remaining people.
Lorelei couldn't remember ever feeling such a pain. It had been so long. 'Perhaps too long, have taken it for granted.' "Aaaah" she cried out with the throbbing ache that latched onto her once more. Lorelei stumbled, and ended up on her hands and knees one the floor. There was the sound of another body coming to the ground, and a groan through gritted teeth.
Lorelei started to cry out in pain once more, a strong arm wrapped around her. Squinting through the pain, she turned her head sideways to see Remus on the floor beside her. Another tremor of pain shot through her as her bones cracked and reformed, the same thing mirrored in the boy beside her. Lorelei let out a scream that ended in a howl.
Another howl echoed the first. The two werewolves stood up, and looked at each other. Tilting their heads back and forth they examined the creature before them. One howled, the other answered. The first one nudged the second one with it's head, then took off on a run through the house, the second following in the game of chase, the other three animals forgotten and left on their own. A couple hours later, worn out from running throughout the shack, the two werewolves laid down, curling up, and drifting off to sleep.