"Oh hey, I'm from twenty-fourteen," Thorne says. "Do we have hoverboards yet? And yeah, they're the benevolent kind. Isn't that right, Selene?"

"Benevolence is a relative concept," the pink bunnyfly following after them says, with an Mid-Atlantic accent straight out of an old movie. "What you or I might see as benevolence could be seen by others as condescension or pity."

Thorne shakes her head. "Sorry about her," she tells Amanda. "I think Spirit Animals are required to be cryptic--or at least to ramble philosophically instead of give straight answers."