The next few weeks proved to be a stressful time for Sabrina and the little girl. Getting her home to be more child friendly wasn't too hard. Magic is a procrastinator's best friend, with the guest bedroom cleared of everything except for the bed, cabinets, a set of shelves, desk and a chair. Clothes were a bit more complicated, since transfigured clothing didn't last long and was never as comfortable as a well made set. Which meant shopping. The tug of war between potentially letting a girl stay home alone and going through a number of reasons to suffer an anxiety attack without adult supervision or Sabrina bringing her along to get clothes that fit her well and that she liked, while having entirely new reasons to panic over being surrounded by strangers. Eventually Sabrina's mothering instincts won out and the two both got clothes, bed sheets and other things she would need. That day the confundus charm became Sabrina's most practiced spell, if only to keep people's eyes from looking at the girl too closely.

The next big hurdle came with the continued treatment of the young girl. Erasing the scars would only be a matter of time, as all but the cursed one, which seemed to have healed over but refuses to fade away, would only need a bit of ointment application over time. Said instances actually seemed to help the new mother and daughter get over the latter's issues with physical contact, as she would soon stop flinching away from her touch and eventually looking forward to it from her mother. Fixing her bones, however, proved to be a more...involved affair for both, as she had to spend a bit of time explaining what she needed to do and what the girl should expect. Eventually the little girl would spend a few nights stunned (via a medical variant, as Sabrina felt ill even contemplating using the stupefy spell on her daughter), the first few nights tested Sabrina's nerves and the girls faith in her new mother as the pain of regrowing bones was still there, stunned or otherwise. The girl's malnutrition would prove to be the hardest to counter, even with potions. Building her body back up to what a girl of 8 years of age should be was going to take a lot of exercise (the park where the two met would become their favorite place for short jogs), an exceedingly precise diet that neither were too good at following to the letter (blueberry and cherry pastries quickly became a favorite of both) and a lot of nutrition potions that were horribly expensive, even as ingredients alone.

Breaking the girl's habits was equally as challenging. The very first morning after the girl was feeling better, Sabrina woke up and found her in the kitchen, preparing breakfast. What followed was the first debate between mother and daughter, with the end result being that the two would share the chores of the house, with neither doing any of them entirely on their own. Getting her to be less panicked around sudden loud noises proved to be difficult, as Sabrina didn't want to impede her daughter's sense of awareness by desensitizing her to sudden sound changes. While Sabrina didn't want to make her daughter paranoid, she absolutely refused to let her be vulnerable to the same type of people who made her suffer. It wasn't paranoia, she mused to herself, if there were actually people out for her daughter.

Lastly, Sabrina had to deal with the girl's past and not only gain legal custody of her, but also giving her a name. While everyone can say that Sabrina cheated, she herself refuses to concede that using Legilimency to learn about her daughter's past, while avoiding traumatizing the girl over having to relive her torture is, in anyway, an improper use of said magic. She made sure she was gentle, and did her best to dull the emotional feedback from the viewing of the memories, proving to be an effective solution as the little girl was barely affected by her first experience with mind magics, while Sabrina only had to delve into a dozen occlumency exercises to refrain from dedicating herself into studying Necromancy, lack of affinity be damned, so that she could raise the monsters back from the dead and kill them over and over again. Not that there were nights when the thought kept clawing back into her head again, especially when said nights were with an eight year old wraped in her arms as she tried to calm her down from one of her many repeating nightmares. For the first month, the little one could easily be found more in her mother's bed than her own, the sound of multiple lullabies in Greek or English became a staple of said nights.

Sabrina drank down her second cup of coffee as she looked on as her daughter finished the last of her blueberry pancakes. Last night she had looked through her daughter's memories and seen how depraved a family of humans can possibly be, no matter how mundane they can appear. It did give her something to work with towards finding the girl's name. However, it also made it clear why she reacted so poorly when she called her "Girl" that one time. The name she was born with, however, would probably be just as bad to use, if it was even her real name. She reached out towards the little girl and touched her hand gently. She was happy that she no longer flinched at her touch, but she was still tense from it. "I know that it's a bit early to deal with some heavy stuff, but I want to resolve the matter of your name. Especially before we go through with registering you as my daughter. You ok to talk about this?"

The girl looked at her mother and nodded, too scared to speak. Sabrina noticed this and slowly pulled the girl into a hug, her hand gently rubbing the girl's back, as the tension left her body. Sabrina summons a page of parchment and a potion vial. She put the vial in the girl's hand. "This is a potion used to identify a person's name, parentage and family magicks. I know we haven't covered much about magic this last week, but one of the important things about magic is that names have a magical aspect to them. Giving someone your full name is a sign of great trust while calling someone by a name they have discarded is a grave insult. While one can magically change their names, it is still possible to find someone's parentage through their blood, though a blood adoption can erase any such traces if done correctly. I want to ask if you're willing to do the test so we know what your full name is so that, if you ever choose to do so, you can decide whether to change it magically or eventually through blood adoption. What do you say?"

The girl looks at the vial in her hand and back at her mom's blue eyes, they seem to be full of kindness and warmth, which make her feel happy inside. She smiles and nods, a soft "kay'' slips out of her lips. Sabrina nods and kisses her on her head. She then describes how the potion works and that it does need a bit of her blood. A ritual needle that she keeps for certain potions and other magics is used and while the girl feels the prick, she finds her mothers warmth against her back more important than that small bit of pain. Her mom drips the blood into the potion vile and then proceeds to shake it, before she takes a small brush, dips it into the potion and uses it as ink. After writing a few words in Greek with the brush, the magic of the potion begins to spread, as more of the parchment is filled in.

αίμα, πες το όνομά σου

(Blood, tell your name)

Name: Halley Lily Evans-[disowned]

Born: July 31st 1980

Father: [disowned]

Mother: Lily Evans-[disowned] (bond dissolved by Magic)

Mother: Sabrina Selene Prasinos (bond accepted by Magic)

Sibling: [bond severed]

Family Magicks:

Peverell

Ravenclaw

Black

[Disowned]

The little girl looked up at her mother, who wore a frown on her face and asked, "What does it all mean?" The mother rubbed her face with her hand, sighed and turned to her daughter. "It means that your biological father went through the trouble of disowning you from the family, hence his name being absent and his family name removed from your name and hers (there was no hiding the venom in her voice when referring to the woman who abandoned a child to hell on earth). Regardless, what really matters is if you'd like to keep your name or if you'd prefer to change it via magic. Eventually, we can do a blood adoption, but it would be better if we had a guy do it with us to erase any trace of your birth parents, so we can preempt any attempts to reclaim you."

She looked at her mom and smiled, a little mischief poking out, "Does that mean I will be getting a Dad?" Her mother's face at her comment made her laugh, her heart growing warm at the sight of her mother's smile. "If I can manage it then yes, one day you will have a dad too. Now, about your name?"

The little girl pouts, "I don't want to keep it. They didn't care to keep me or check up on me, so I didn't feel like it. Besides, you're my mother now and I don't want to forget that. Ever." The little girl felt herself getting gently squeezed in one of her mother's hugs. She was really starting to like those hugs. Her mother hummed against her, the sound always melting away any tension in the girl. "Like I said, names have magic and it's best to have a name you can shorten or alter as a way of introducing yourself to others while keeping your full name to family and the most trusted. So any preferences?"

She thinks for a moment, "I don't think I will mind you picking, as long as it's not related to a flower." She relaxes into her mother's embrace. Sabrina thinks out loud, "I could name you after a famous witch. My father named me after a fictional witch from a comic series in America. My mom wasn't amused until she learned that my name was tied to that of a river and since my mom grew up on said river, she eventually agreed." The girl thinks, and shakes her head. "Please no." Sabrina smiles and kisses the girl on her head, "Ok, ok, no funny stuff and no flowers." Sabrina hums for a second. "I don't know much about the Ravenclaw family, and the Peverells are much a mystery now as they were when around, the Blacks, however, are known for using the name of celestial bodies for their given names."

Mother and daughter spend a few minutes in silence, thinking about names and their meanings, until Sabrina breaks the silence. "How about Rhea, short for Rheannon? It's a name with a magical background and its short form matches the Black's habit of names, as I am pretty sure it's the name of one the moons of Saturn." The girl spends a few moments feeling out the name, saying both under her breath. Finally, she squeezes her mother's arms, which are still wrapped around her. "I like it." A few minutes later, after Sabrina gives her daughter a few instructions and lends her her wand, Rheannon "Rhea" Prasinos begins her new life.

Sabrina was many things; impulsive, vicious when provoked and stubborn to a fault. However, she didn't earn her Potions Mastery and her ICW healers license at a young age for nothing. She wasn't stupid. There is a certain Lily Evans in the British Magical Community, who is married to a man who would certainly be capable of disowning a child from his "Noble" family. The fact that Rhea's birthday matches that of their son, one Henry Potter, dubbed by the political rag that is the Daily Prophet as the Boy Who Lived, and that Rhea's original Blood identification test mentioned that a sibling bond had once existed but was severed, meant that she couldn't use either legal magical or mundane means of getting legal guardianship over Rhea. That meant no Health Services, no school and no paper trail. As a Magical in non-magical London, that wasn't the most difficult of things to do. It just meant that Rhea would miss out on a lot of what made up a childhood. Though to be fair, the last 7 years of her life weren't that much of a childhood either. Rhea was surprisingly ok with not going to school, though she agreed to be homeschooled in both magical and non-magical education.

Rhea was, as far as Sabrina was concerned, a very capable learner. She studied diligently, asked why things were as established and went through the process of testing things out and learning by experience. Most of it was in mathematics and basic sciences, but she did read a few history texts that made for some disturbingly mature discussions, though Rhea's smile and laugh whenever Sabrina got decidedly crass with her language, which she always made sure to highlight that she should never repeat in "polite" company, though the warning always came after said language lessons (her parents would be both turning and laughing in their graves at their daughter's antics.) She even started helping out with her on the creation of both herbal medicines and potions, with only a single melted cauldron in her record prior to advanced Potions (melting a cauldron while experimenting is a right of passage as far as Sabrina is concerned). So of course, after a few months of the two living together, 2 inevitable things came to pass.

The first was Rhea's first Yule celebration. Sabrina refused to deny Rhea's heritage and made sure she knew the differences between Yule and Christmas and why it's important to celebrate them separately, from Yule's cleansing effects among participants, to its place of importance in Magical society, as well as Christmas' place in non-magical society. Sure, Sabrina would have to be physically dragged into a Yule Ball, but that didn't mean she didn't know that this was a time for the "elite" to socialize and build alliances. She specifically stressed how Christmas has become a celebration followed by Light Families (like a certain one that will remain unnamed), with many abandoning Yule rituals entirely. Yule, on the other hand, is practiced by both Neutral Families as well as Dark Families, with full focus given to the rituals and how these connect the family together. The giving of presents, however, was embraced by all wixen.

Sabrina smiled at her daughter as Rhea gently opened the presents, revealing a good mix of items, few in number but, in standard Prasinos fashion, full of intent and sentimental value. Her presents consisted of a bracelet that perfectly replicated the moon's cycle that had belonged to Sabrina's mother (perfect for lunar based rituals), three books, each one about the Families that she saw on the blood test's Family Magicks section, a Runes Carving Set since she had shown an impressive proficiency in Runes and finally a stuffed animal. Sabrina had noticed that Rhea would stop and look at a specific stuffed animal at a corner children's shop, but she would always shake her head and ignore it. Sabrina knew that Rhea didn't want to seem too childish by asking for a toy. So, Sabrina made sure to order it and retrieve it quickly.

Sabrina had a smug smile on her face when she heard Rhea's very childlike squeal and saw the absolute joy in her eyes as she held the stuffed toy, a pitch black dog with gold eyes, its teeth a pale white and its tongue a deep red. Rhea pulled the dog to her into a fierce hug, before lunging at her mom and hugging her as well. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Sabrina laughed and hugged her daughter back warmly. "You are 8 years old, so no you don't need to feel bad if you want to buy a toy. And as everyone who goes to amusement parks and town fairs can attest, you are never too old for a stuffed animal either." Sabrina pulled back and saw a gentle blush on her little girl, as she kept hugging the blag dog. "You got a name for it?"

Rhea took a few moments before she looked down and gently rubbed the dog down its back, "I was thinking of calling him Padfoot."

The second eventuality was that Rhea wanted to learn magic. While at 8 years old Rhea couldn't exactly buy a wand at Olivanders, or any of the other legal shops in Britain, but she could study it at home, with some practice using Sabrina's wand. After getting her a blank wand, so that she could practice wand movements, Sabrina finally decided that New Year's Eve was the best time to get Rhea to take a certain Prasinos family test. She led Rhea back into her workshop, where she had cleared the area, a large runic circle marked on the floor with chalk and certain bronze dishes containing a variety of magical materials within.

"This is known to our family as our Ritual of Affinity. Every magical is born with one or more affinities, be they specific elements or even whole branches of magic. Every child born to the Prasinos family is tested on their seventh birthday, but New Year's Eve works just as well as a promise to learn and grow in these fields of magic. You ready?"

Rhea nods and steps into the circle and before the raised pillar, where a bronze bowl sits, empty. Rhea takes the ritual needle and gently jabs her palm. She holds her hand over the bowl and closes her fist, blood drops trickling into the bowl. With each drop that touches the bowl, one of each of the satellite bowls with their materials catches a light, until all seven bowls are a blaze, each with a flame of a different colour; red, blue, gray, green, brown, white and black. Rhea opens her hand and uses the back of the ritual needle to heal the puncture, making sure all excess blood remains in the bowl, before using a cleansing cloth to remove the blood from her hand. Eventually, the Ritual concludes, the 7 satellite bowls empty and flameless, the runic circle lines losing their indigo glow as they fade back into their dule chalk outlines.

Sabrina steps forward and gently hugs Rhea with one arm as they peer into the raised bowl. Inside lie three ritual items. Rhea turns to her mom, "So, what do they mean?" Rhea notices that her Mom's face doesn't register that she heard her and repeats a little louder, her hand squeezing hard on her mom's hand that rests on Rhea's waist. "Mom?"

Sabrina shakes her head as if waking up from a dream. "Sorry Rhea, my mind just wandered away. There are three items, so three affinities, though this doesn't mean you can't use other magic, just that these will come easily to you and require less effort and energy to maintain." She points at an object that looks like an eye made of shiny dirt. "That is golem's clay, meaning you will have an affinity for Earth Magic, with some bleedover into possibly plant magic and magical creatures, if you work hard for them." She turns to a reddish crystal spiked ball, "That is a crystalized mixture of animal, human and creature blood, meaning you have an affinity towards Blood Magic, which again bleeds over into magical creatures and uniquely healing. You should be better able to tell when something is wrong with someone else. Should mention that Blood Magic is frowned upon by the British Ministry of Magic and considered illegal, though the ICW disagrees. I personally share an affinity for Blood Magic, though I also have another for Plant Magic"

Rhea nods, "Cool. Sucks about the Blood Magic ban, though." Sabrina gives her a smirk, which Rhea replies with a light punch on the shoulder. "What about the third one?" Sabrina sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose. "That is the bone of a Thestral, meaning an affinity to a very exclusive form of magic. Unlike the rest, this one needs affinity as a requirement to practice it and learn it accordingly." Sabrina takes a moment and looks at Rhea in the eyes. "You have an affinity for Death Magic."