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Remus wasn't sure if he'd been imagining it or not, but the days leading up to the first full moon to rise since he'd found himself on Sanctuary had felt more intense than he remembered from any moon back home. He'd done his research, knew the planet where Sanctuary was stationed had three moons on different lunar cycles, and the biggest moon was due to come up full tonight. Cora had agreed, she'd felt it coming too; there was no doubt Remus was going to change as soon as the last embers of sunlight faded and the moon appeared in the night sky.

The way he felt wasn't unusual; shaky and sick, all of his senses heightened to an intensity that made him feel out of control, feral, wild. His breath was coming quickly as he made his way along the path Cora had taught him, headed toward the dark, hidden forest, the beast beneath his skin so ready to be free. He could smell Cora's scent along the way, telling him she would already be there when he arrived, and a disconnected part of his brain echoed pack mate, an excitement Remus couldn't understand throbbing at his temples with his heavy, thudding pulse.

Outside the forcefield, Remus took a deep breath, but it didn't calm him. Reaching up with a shaking hand, Remus touched the panel to open the door, slipping inside and casting his gaze around immediately, searching for his kin.

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"I used to know a guy in my adopted pack." Cora said, thumbs in her leggings, pushing them down her thighs casually. "He was bitten, not born, and he used to buy clothes specifically so he could shred them on the moon." She grinned and folded her arms. "It's the biggest waste I've ever seen but he loved it."

The sun was almost all the way down now and Cora was feeling the nervous excitement that always came with the moon. She watched Remus undressing and smiled. He was a good looking guy, she could see that, but it was just appreciative. Cora was used to nudity.

"You'll get used to it. Packs are naked together a whole lot. Body hangups aren't really a thing." She said, picking up the bag and moving it to a space under the large rock she'd been sitting on to keep it out of their way if they found their way back here.

Remus nodded, and he tried to behave as normally as he could, looking at Cora rather than avoiding it despite her nudity. Of course she didn't have any hangups about her body, he thought a bit bitterly; she was lovely, well proportioned with clean, smooth skin, shiny hair and bright eyes and even an adorable smattering of freckles. His shirt off, the lacing network of scars that slashed across his skin had already started to become visible, which didn't do anything for his scrawny build and overly pale complexion. He hurried through removing his boots and socks, then his trousers and his pants, and he folded his discarded clothing together as best as he could and stashed it near Cora's beneath the rock.

"I've never had money to waste," Remus told Cora when he walked back to where she was stood waiting for his return. "The clothes I have were always secondhand to start with, so I couldn't afford ripping them apart by accident, let alone purposefully. Even magic can only repair things so many times."

He offered her a wan smile, shivering a bit despite the upward shift of his body temperature as the moonrise steadily approached. He crossed his arms over his chest.

"Is it painful?" he asked then, after a few moments of silence. "When you change?"

The scars were a little shocking, even to Cora's eyes. She'd seen bitten humans before, even a few savaged ones when an omega went too long without a pack and let the human rule the wolf. But the ones that turned healed up from their injuries. Remus...there was no healing where he was from apparently.

She shook herself out of her revelry and met his eyes, allowing the moon to wash the change over her until she was half-turned.

"It doesn't hurt." She said, smiling gently around her longer teeth. "I've been doing it for my whole life though." She reached out with a taloned hand and brushed one of the longer scars. "Does it hurt you?"