There was an old saying passed among parents. "It takes a village to raise a child". Shining remembered, quite vividly, when his mother first conferred the generational knowledge to him. Speaking around the side of her quellazaire, from the backseat of a taxi carriage, just before she dropped him off at the YPCA to take Twilight to a week-long magic convention in Las Pegasus, and right after telling him 'And if anyone asks where I am, you tell them I'll be around in a few hours then go hide somewhere till they leave.'