"Kind of?" Mags replied. "I go to school in Connecticut, but my dad lives in the city. It's spring break now, so I thought I'd come on down for a day or so." Mags was all kinds of smart - smart enough that the Manhattan Visions Academy was looking at her as a prospective student for the next semester - but philosophy and proverbs had never really been her area of expertise.

Her father was a natural with those, though.

"Because then the tiger may attack you?" It was the only thing that made sense.