Lacking Humanity|Crescent Moon

Chapter Thirty-Five

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 "Sage...What are you doing on the floor sweetheart? I told Liam that your desk chair was uncomfortable." She chided herself for failing Sage on the attempt of making her comfortable in a new home, but she simply shook her head as she offered to show her what she managed to draw.

"That's lovely, sounds like you're liking winter so far." 

"No. It's cold." Camilla hummed as she walked through the threshold, it wasn't the first time she's caught Sage sitting in this lone room. There was little to nothing in here, simply things that Remus hadn't gotten into the boxes yet, or childhood memorabilia that he'd need to put in the basement if Sage favored this room instead.

With how content she looked, Camilla said that she brought some lunch and brownies over and left her daughter to her privacy. Though she made a point to leave the door open, and thus having Camilla call out her final goodbyes

Only to run into the Alpha.

"Goodmorning Alpha." 

"Mrs.Elwood, we've talked about this, please call me Remus." He wanted Sage's family to be comforatble, but also so Sage didn't think she was in the wrong for calling him by his first name, but she's favored calling him Rommy.

And he wouldn't complain in any regard.

"Right right, old habits...What's that empty room upstairs, with all the boxes and—" 

"Oh. I guess it'd be a guest room or our pups room in the future. Why...?" Camilla's shoulders fell as she looked back up the stairs with her heart slowly falling suit.

"Because Sage sits in that room every morning on the floor, and I think her wolf is struggling more than we realize." She whispered, and Remus could not believe it.

"What?" 

"She has her breakfast in there, or she's drawing right now...Alph—Remus, you have to tell her." Camilla urged further, and perhaps it was the wrong choice to tell his mother in law that Sage questioned why they were mates.

After her whole life being a wolf and staying within this pack, she barely understood the values of a mate.

"I've offended her wolf before, when I refused to—" 

"I don't have to lecture you about how to go about it Alpha, tell her the basics." He withheld a growl as the two went their separate ways, or for Remus...Up the steps and into his childhood room.

And right there and then was his mate, drawing on her large note pad off in the corner.

"Sage hun, how about you join me in the kitchen?" 

"I'm okay." After hearing her favorite character in their shared show say this phrase, she deemed to use it as her own.

"Can I join you?"

She looked up for a moment, her soft eyes turning to analyze his want. "Talk?" Was her question, and he smirked as the last time they had a get together things heated up a little too quickly.

"Yeah, how about we talk about why you're in here?" Her mouth opened for a moment but bounced back down into a pout as she let out a frustrated growl.

Having his own wolf growl in response to her calling.

"Careful munchkin, he's getting excited when you're talking like that." An adorable smile erupted, whenever he spoke about his wolf, her face brightened up significantly.

"Right, I want to talk to you about that too..." He said, squeezing his eyes closed as he hadn't realized how hard the talk really was to usher out. It was different to a parent to a child, or even the idea of joking around with his friends...But sharing what was going to happen with a mate?