"Don't mind old Snark there.
He has been with me many years doing the gargoyle thing, hanging around
the battlements, sleeping and eating pigeons. (Snark hates pigeons)
He only comes off the walls to greet visitors, friends and to kill
the occasional assassin or two. He puts on a fearsome front but, when all
is saidand done, he is the most gentle of beings and is happiest,
leaning off the walls in
great anticipation, reading with delight, the next chapter of a "Wheel
of Time" book and sipping
on a capucino."