Sirius hadn't grown up around here, not like Remus. He had only started living here in the past few years, with school done and his family and him being mutually done with one another. Even so, he had still grown up with the stories of the beasts in the woods. And of the crazed man who never came into town.

He knew not to go into the forest during a full moon even before he knew why. Of course, now that he slept with Remus every night except those full moon ones, he knew so much more. So much more than he wanted to know.

Sirius was just human. He may have a bit more of a penchant for getting into and causing trouble than most, but he was still only human. He wasn't supposed to be a hero in a story like this and he was painfully aware of that. He was only human. Only human and walking through the forest. At least it was still daytime, but that didn't mean his heart beat any slower.

Remus had told him to get Taliesin. Remus, apparently, remembered playing with Taliesin when he'd been a child. All Sirius had heard from everyone else was that the man was better left alone. Dangerous, feral, deadly.

But supposedly, he never harmed humans. Anyway, Sirius had always had more courage than foresight, so he tried to use that to his advantage. He stopped on the edge of the clearing, calling out to that wooden shed. "Oi!"

How did he even address him? "CRAZY MAN! You home?!"