The winter months was especially bad but they survived, having learn how to make fires for themselves on those cold winter nights, sleeping together just to share body warmth. They would befriend other street rats, children that were homeless, learning the tools of the trade when it comes to stealing money or food without being caught by the adults. As they grew older, those skills were used for more adult things such as drugs and alcohol. Then they would learn about magic, and start training in it after meeting the Marci Family and doing chores for the pureblood clan. Their lives were very interesting, fraught with mortal peril, drugs, alcohol, blood, and death. They knew how to kill without remorse at a young age. They learned the carnal acts of the flesh at thirteen years old and enjoyed it together just to ward off those feelings of emptiness and age-old wounds of wanting to feel love by respectful adults not in a life of crime.