QUOTE : His single greatest skill was lying about how great his other skills were. In practice, Alexander was well meaning but inept, careless and prone to knocking himself unconscious. “Do you trust the principal?” I asked. “He was just informed that I was to be activated.” “How do you know that?” Cyrus asked suspiciously. I thought about telling the whole story, but then decided to go with the answer Erica always gave me instead. “I’m training to be a spy. It’s my job to know things. Does the principal know what’s going on?” “The principal wouldn’t know what was going on even if he was here with us right now,” Cyrus said. “Yes, I told him SPYDER was active so he’d authorize your mission without any delay, but I lied to him about everything else. He thinks you’re infiltrating a prep school in Bethesda.