Remus had spent the walk back onto campus trying to predict the course of this conversation, and yet this had never crossed his mind. The answer Black gave him was frankly bone chilling, beyond what anything Remus could have ever prepared for.<br/>“What did you say?” he asked, his voice flat, barely recognizable as his own. He had heard Black perfectly.<br/>The colour had drained from his face, the frustration giving way for a complete sense of mortification. It didn’t compare to the embarrassment he had felt meeting Black’s eye across the bar earlier tonight, feeling out of his depth, lost at sea.<br/>It had taken Black a single little addition to floor Remus, feeling the balance shift. Within seconds, they no longer entered the conversation with the same knowledge. Remus felt his throat knot up, no longer certain of what Sirius knew, when.