Thalia gave a short laugh. "Oooh, I bet she did! She can be a real mama tiger when she needs to. I'm more like a Grumpy Cat meme." She leaned across the table to cut a slice of cake for herself, then dug her fork into it. It was good cake, sweet and fluffy, with pockets of blueberry compote hidden in amongst the layers of buttercream. "You know in the South, they say you should eat your pie from the crust in, and then when you get to the tip you get a wish?" She glanced down at her plate, at the slice of cake, blunted from where she'd carved off her first forkful, and smiled wryly. "I always forget that till after the first bite."