*Reading had always been a most treasured
past time of Rebeccas. She could get lost in a book for hours and never grow
bored of reading the same thing over and over if she really liked it. Books
were an 'escape' for her, unless she was studying something, but even then, the
learning that she gained from it was also an escape in of itself, for while
reading such book on learning, she was there...in the material itself, soaking
up each and every word as her brain stored the information away, needed for
later. Such was the books she had been reading recently.
She was settled under a tree, out in the
sunshine, with a book propped up on her lap, and two more open beside her. She
had a pad of paper resting against the book on her lap, pen in hand as she read
and reread the materiel. She had often been curious about her own kind of wolf,
and had read as much as she could find upon it, but being of a rare 'breed' that
inherited the 'demon's' blood from her Maternal Parentage, there wasn't much to
go on. But Werewolves, however, there was plenty and it was this subject, upon
which she had been reading.
Remus was a were, different then her and so
that made her curious. Where she had been born this way, with the ability to
change shape from one to the other, he had been bitten, and phased only with
the Full Moon...which was a mere 10 days away. She embraced her wolf, and loved
being in wolf fur, whereas Remus did not seem to enjoy his shifts at all, nor
control it. She wondered what the real difference was between the two of them,
and if there was a way to possibly help him, besides the potion he had sent for
or her turning wolf and running with him, every full moon. Not that she minded,
she didn't, but maybe there was something they were both missing. A clue that
could unlock a whole other side to what they both were. It was a long shot, but
still, she read and took notes. If it helped him, might it also help her?
Some of the stuff she read, caught her
interest.
"A werewolf is is a mythological or
folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or a therianthropic
hybrid wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse
or affliction (e.g. via a bite or scratch from another werewolf)."
Some were just plain ludicrous!
"One method of identifying a werewolf
in its human form was to cut the flesh of the accused, under the pretense that
fur would be seen within the wound. A Russian superstition recalls a werewolf
can be recognized by bristles under the tongue"
And still others....made her bristle in
anger.
"There are werewolves worldwide and
they have traditionally been pariahs in the wizarding communities from which
they often spring."
but then there were a few helpful things
she read on, noting that the potion she had read bout, the Wolfsbane, that was
used even on her during her 'demon' rising, was the most powerful potion out
there, and helped to soften the blow of the change. She also noted "The
monthly transformation of a werewolf is extremely painful if untreated and is
usually preceded and succeeded by a few days of pallor and ill health. While in
his or her wolfish form, the werewolf loses entirely its human sense of right
or wrong." and that..made her pause. True, she never lost her 'human'
sense of morality when in wolf form, but Remus hadn't attacked her the night
they met. But then, she had been in wolf form then....and her high hopes
dropped as she continued to read.
"A wolf is unlikely to attack a human
except under exceptional circumstances. The werewolf, however, targets humans
almost exclusively and poses very little danger to any other creature."*
Well crap...*she said to herself as her keen mind worked* Maybe if I started off wolf, and then changed.....*she spoke to herself, wondering.* He can't really hurt me, I am wolf already....hmmmm... *she made a note to come back to that thought later and continued on. The rest was fairly self explanatory and she was left with a lot more questions then she had answers for. As much about herself as about the one she loved. Why was she so different? Why did she 'keep' her mind during a shift and Remus didn't? What was the key difference between the two? There that question was again....she snorted and grabbed another book, she would think on this some more. For every question, there had to be an answer...and she would find it*
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