Now that Pandora was officially a legal witch. She could adopt me. And so she did. I went back to my mothers to give her the pieces of paper to sign, I thought i'd had to put up a fight. But it turns out she didn't.
"You'll be safe there," she said, signing. "Safe from me." She smiled.
That was the first and last time I had ever seen my mother smile. Before I left she sat me down.
"You will do great things, Regi- Regulus," she sighed. "Just like your brother."
I smiled. We hugged. It was the first and last time I ever hugged her. She let me go.
