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Regina vows to Zelena that they will always be sisters no matter what and that she will find her again, but Cora ensures this never happens, by having both girls take a potion to forget each other. On Cora's orders, guards take Zelena away as she and Regina hold onto each other until the two are pried apart by Cora. Cora chides Regina for this, as she believes her daughter should depend on herself only, and if people find out about Zelena, everything she's worked towards for Regina's sake will be undone. They ask Cora, who admits the girls are siblings, with Regina hopeful about being a family with Zelena. Regina, knowing about seal, suggests she and Zelena are related. Drawn to the box's design, Zelena touches it, unknowingly triggering the blood magic seal on it, causing the box to unlock. When Regina opens a drawer to take out a necklace for Zelena to wear as they continue to play, Zelena notices a box inside, that Regina states is where her mother used to keep her wand.
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They pretend to be royal enemies, in which Regina aims an imaginary fireball at Zelena before they both burst into laughter. Zelena becomes fast friends with Regina, and one morning, Regina sneaks out of bed to play dress-up with her. After Cora brings Zelena home with her, the girl's eagerness to use her powers for good leads her into channeling magic into Regina, successfully curing her. Cora, having sought out Zelena because she is the only one who can heal her daughter Regina, who was injured by magic, offers Zelena a chance to prove to her father that her magic is not bad. Zelena's father, however, is furious over witnessing her "wickedness", and though the girl promises not to do it ever again, he prepares to beat her as punishment, only for Cora to freeze him in place. Nearby, Cora secretly watches Zelena perform this magical feat with a pleased expression on her face. One day, while Zelena is outside her home collecting a stack of wood to place on a shelf, she accidentally drops the entire pile before using magic to make the wood float and fly into place on the shelf. Sometime during her childhood, Zelena's adoptive mother dies, leaving her to be raised solely by her adoptive father, who dislikes her because of her ability to use magic. (" Bleeding Through", " It's Not Easy Being Green") Frightened by what the child is capable of, the woodcutter tries to persuade his wife to not take in the baby, but she insists on it, deciding to name the child Zelena. The woman's husband, a woodcutter, witnesses the baby exhibit magic by felling a tree, though the latter remains oblivious. The bassinet ends up in the land of Oz and soon the girl is found by a woman who is immediately enchanted by her. Cora, believing she will never be able to rise above her station if she keeps her daughter, leaves her in a bassinet to be taken away by a cyclone, in the hopes her child's best chance is elsewhere without her. Zelena is born in the Enchanted Forest, where her mother Cora gives birth to her months after she is abandoned by her child's father.