"Yeah, but isn't it unlucky, too?" Scott asked, half-teasing, half-wondering if witches were maybe immune. "At least enough people around here wear armor and stuff that it might be hard to get a bite in, anyway."

And if they didn't have armor, they might have powers that could mind-control the cat away, or turn it into a butterfly or something, right?

"'Course, then we've got frustrated cats, and that doesn't sound great, either."