And that would teach Remus to think he'd lost someone who was standing right next to him the entire time! Perhaps they were both a bit overwhelmed still, for different reasons.
"I have a werewolf's appetite, James," he teased, biting into the apple because there really wasn't anything else to do now that the server had moved on. "I'm supposed to always be thinking about food. What's your excuse?"
Besides, just accepting the apple, which really was very good and would normally have tempted his sweet tooth any other time, was much easier than trying to explain the increases in his own paranoia since James had known him. James had enough to deal with just wrapping his mind around his own life and death without Remus adding his issues on top of it.
"Is there any member of the Wizarding World who isn't here tonight?" Biting into the apple again while he mused, Remus took another look around at the gathering. So many people. Grinning mischievously around his apple, he teased, "I think you and Sirius are both going to owe me for this one."