Sirius was completely broken out of his stupor at the sound of Remus’ voice, having all but forgotten that he was standing in the hallway and not somewhere private. He shook his head, unsure how to properly explain the situation to Remus when he hardly understood any of it himself.<br/>“My mother is dead,” was all explanation he could settle on, knowing that it was probably too abrupt and far too much to just dump on his flatmate like this, but he had a desperate need to tell<span style="font-style: italic">someone</span>. Normally he would’ve called James up, but his arms had felt too heavy to even consider lifting them enough to be able to make that call.<br/>Instead, Remus was right there and while he maybe hadn’t wanted to actually know what was going through Sirius’ head, Sirius really didn’t know who else he could share this with.