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Quietly approaching was one small alchemist. The winged teen with the blonde braid and red jacket making his way up to Liliana's side. He quickly judged the expressions of Liliana and her father, and frowned himself. Something was obviously amiss, and golden eyes turned to Liliana expectantly. "What's going on?" He probably couldn't be expected to understand, since all this magic stuff was completely foreign to him. Edward being the scientific and analytical child prodigy that he was, although he had come to accept some of Liliana's unexplained magic.

He blinked once as father spoke to daughter in a grave tone, wondering what was meant by that. But then... he didn't want to press as much as his curiousity bugged him. It wasn't really any of his business, right?

Ayako frowned. Why, did everyone seem...nervous, tense? As if they were waiting for something. Was it a special day of sorts? Her ears laid back at that thought as her little gold wings fluttered. She padded up to the rest of them, standing beside the alchemist, observing Liliana's and her dad's expression. She waited the answer to Nahanni's question, staring at both of them.

Vynnessia had been watching the phasing of the moon since Katsumi had been born and knew her father would want to see the 6 new kits to see if any of them had contracted his were wolf gene. Vynnessia remembered the first time her father had shown her the same thing. But still... Vynnessia stared at the moon rising in the black sky. "Come on Katsumi." the older kitsu bade the younger one.

Katsumi grumbled following her sister but felt something important was going to happen and for some odd reason couldn’t stop staring at the sky like a moonstruck crow. Katsumi wondered why.

"I know you hate spending time with the family but... Please this is important." she tried to persuade her sister who for some reason wasn't as troublesome as usual was she able to sense the importance of this?

“All right, Alright Nessi” Katsumi said rather annoyed she could sense something but couldn’t place her paw on it yet.

Vynnessia saw the metal shack come into view as well as the rest of her siblings. "Hello, everyone," she called not as bright spirited as usual; this was far too serious. “Daddy…” she smiled at Remus, she knew this wasn’t going to get any easier on him, just like the last time.

Katsumi looked around and wondered why everyone was so sulky faced. “What’s wrong with you?” she asked rudely. Not a single member of her family wore a ‘happy’ smile this night.

"My children..." Remus managed with a choked voice, smiling with a pained sadness at each of them in turn as they neared or voiced their presence. He nodded too at Edward & Nari's twin, Nokomis. He seemed neither surprised nor worried at their presence.

"It's not what happened." Liliana started slowly, mildly shocked that their usually shy sister had spoken up. "It's what's going to happen... and what might happen." It felt odd being the one to explain things. Her gaze drifted unbidden to the sun far past its zenith but not yet set. It was still day and still time for Remus to take the Wolfsbane potion before the moon rose. With a light rub against her mute brother, Liliana turned and nuzzled her best friend with a kind of need for comfort laced with anxiety. "I... maybe I should have told you before, but it never came up and it's really not widely known. Just to family and close friends mostly." Green eyes flicked, seeking out her father's. Catching the question in her gaze and understanding upon seeing the fullmetal teen Remus nodded, then returned to his pacing, casting glances at Romulus and Vynnessia with a silent reprise of the question he had asked earlier -something like 'wands at the ready, children, wands at the ready'. "Daddy's a werewolf. Long story, but he was bit in his before & it came with him. Maybe like your automail came with you. At the full moon he changes and..." her voice chocked even as Hemi gently nuzzled the top of a red ear and her green gaze flicked from her friend to those of her kit sisters. "And Daddy's worried it might pass on."

Leaving Liliana to the support of Rommy & Ed, the scarfed kit hopped onto his brother to nuzzle him, then down behind Lily to Nahanni, nuzzling her with a worried chirp and urging her to their eldest sibling's side before trotting around the fullmetal to nuzzle him & Ayako then loving on the ever-sullen Katsumi & his fellow scarfed sibling.

Remus stopped his pacing, and looked down at the ground beneath his feat with a sigh. It was just grass but he knew the little cait Amaryllis would be upset that his pacing had uprooted so many shoots and damaged others. It almost made him smile. "The older ones know, as they have been through this before. I can only speak for myself, but for me the first time is the most difficult." The wizard was picking his words more slowly & deliberately than normal. Hemi whined softly from Vynnessia's scarf, wanting to go to their father and console him but seeing Remus was purposefully keeping his distance. He was also staying close to the door, on the west side of the shack -perhaps a silly precaution for when the moon followed the sun across the sky. Remus worried anew if any of his offspring would be passed his curse -was it luck that none were werewolves in the first litter, or could the curse not pass beyond his blood? He hoped it was the later but since he was not sure Remus still worried. Countless books he had read on the subject, until he could hardly separate fact from fiction. He could only for certain go off the wizarding books -which held no accounts of werewolves having children at all other than turning children and making them their own. Which is of no help to me.

He avoided looking to the sky, not wanting to be reminded how close to darkness it was and how close he was pushing it in taking his potion. But he wanted to be able to answer his kits questions if they had them before dulling his wits and body to the level of sanity bequeathed to him under the Wolfsbane Potion. "Hopefully your mother. MauCho & Enue will be here soon. But if you can think of a question, now would be the time." His gaze fell briefly on the potion in his guardian's arms. "Before I take the only thing that keeps me safe & sane through the coming three nights, for it weakens me & dulls my thoughts."

((Will wait until everyone's posted once more, hopefully Mau will pop in by then. If not, I'll probably slip a generic 'they show up line' in my next post or something, hopefully can get permission or something. I'd rather her here but... *shrugs* She's busy lots.))

Not to sure what to expect, Nahanni seated herself some distance from the family. Though eager to understand, her timid nature was dimmed only so much. At this moment, she was more consumed with anxiety than shyness. She glanced between all the older siblings, noticing the recognition and sad touch in their eyes. She leaned back on her hind legs, wrapping her arms around her upset tummy while tossing a faint glare at Katsumi. Her words always rubbed her fur the wrong way, and Nahann's tolerance was drawing thin. Especially tonight. She blinked as her aunt appeared with Aiden, but otherwise remained silent. Her father's voice then drew her attention, and she listened to his words through Lily with growing shock. Werewolves? She glanced down at her own paws in fear, eyes tearing. One of them....could be cursed? Her small body shivered at the thought, and she closed her eyes and hugged herself tightly, wishing such ideas away.

Katsumi knew exactly what werewolves were; loving the strange things like that, but her father? This was all strange for her. Oh wait Vynnessia had mentioned something to that extent somewhere... Katsumi had been ignoring Nessi as usual. "Get off me Hemi!" Katsumi snapped

A silent worry hung in her mind, would she become a werewolf? She looked most like her dad but with mom's Kimono... Would she be the most likely? Katsumi did the best she could to hide the worry from her other siblings. She was stronger than them after all.


Vynnessia caught her father's gaze and pulled out her wand although the dreaded the thought of using it... on her own father of all things. Vynnessia nuzzled Hemi and hugged him "It will be fine.." she whispered kindly to her young sibling. But Vynnessia too wished to console her father. She could feel some how the pain of this within him.

Vynnessia looked to Romulus quickly and then gazed at each one of her siblings. This would be a rough night if one of them turned into a werewolf. They would have to avoid at all costs getting bitten or scratched and on top of that protect the rest of them.

Vynnessia even felt Katsumi worried... The scarf wearing kitsu hugged hemi again and hoped for the best.

Spotting his mate and remaining two children, Remus let his auburn haired love nuzzle him and he her before speaking. He glanced at Noko & Aiden. "Nokomis, wake my son please. It is best he hear it with the others."

Liliana nodded but let her father field the questions, not even bothering to make a face at MauCho. "Yes. A werewolf. Even in the wizarding world little enough is known of the condition as those cursed by the bite are usually ostrasized by society or join werewolf society, if you can call their packs that." He spoke as a professor to his class, seeing them but as if he was afraid to get too emotionally involved at that moment. The wizard's voice held no emotion; all that could be seen was in his eyes and he would not meet them long with anyones. As loving as Remus usually was with his children that alone should be an indication that their father was afraid. Afraid for them.

"No "good" werewolf as I might have been considered ever had children in the before I remember. Any children, if known. living with a werewolf pack the Ministry of Magic would not have been able to determine -or did not wish to bother finding out- whether they were born werewolves or given the curse later from either their birth or "adoptive" parents."

He paused, dark eyes falling softly on those gathered one at a time. "None of the firstborn have it. Though..." His eyes drifted to Romulus with gentle sadness. "You feel a tug, don't you, my son? Enough to follow the moon, am I right?" Something Liliana had mentioned about her brother's behavior when Remus was gone hinted at that, though he could not be sure.

Hemi's purr came in faltering sputters as he snuggled into Vynnessia's scarf, offering a happy grin to his mother & other siblings who had arrived. He wanted to go to them as he had each of the others but sensed that perhaps he should sit still, not distract from their father.

"There is no known cure, and only one potion known to abate." He said this as much for Edward and Nokomis as he did for his family. "The Wolfsbane Potion. It weakens me, and yes... it hurts." Pain filled his eyes at the nearly whispered confesion. Remus would rather not suffer his family the pain but neither could he chance one of them being lose if by some horrible twist of fate the cursecould be trensmitted genetically. The notion ate Remus up inside.

"It hurts..." he continued in his normal manner & volume "But when taken I have my sanity, however dulled my thoughts. I do not become the raged and mindless beast I would otherwise be." Robes rustled as he turned to glance at the bottle held by his guardian. "I must take it very soon now. As impressive a lesson it might be for you to see a full grown werewolf at full power I will not chance any of you. This shack behind me can contain me at my worst without damage. To it, not myself, as Nari knows." Eyes and tone softened, falling lovingly on his mate as he remembered the first time she had healed him after a full moon -the one where just before he had told her & Ember of his condition so that they would know why he must leave them. "I can not imagine how hard this might be for you, and I would shelter you from it if I could. But it is part of our family and I will not lie to you."

He paused, breathing deeply. "If any one of you my dear kits change when I do you will be shut with me in there until the full moon is over so that no one else is hurt." At "there" his head indicated the shed, but by the time he had finished speaking his eyes were on the wands of the firstborns, saddened at what he asked of them. To possibly have to blast a shapechanging sibling into a metal prison with their father.

Liliana sniffled but did not lose her stance or resolve, glad to be standing between Romulus and Edward. Hemi nudged towards Katsumi, light blue eyes wide but somehow wanting to make it easier for his sister to send him if somehow it was that he changed.

"I hope we are lucky and the worrying is for nothing... that it can not be passed down by birth. I would rather be safe than sorry, and I would rather you know the truth."

((Next post by me will be the potion drinking. Sorry about the holdup, folks. *hugs*))