"It's a game," Janet says with a little sigh. It's fine. She gets that nobody else went to Brakebills. It's not Magnus' fault that she can't snap her fingers and turn him into Eliot or Josh or even fucking Quentin. "Like chess, but bigger and more dangerous, and you play with magic. And it's also sort of like capture the flag. They invented it to stop magic students from killing each other with duels."