> "Well, you make it awfully hard to tell sometimes," the petite
>blonde grumped. "Seriously, though. We should see if we can find
>something cool for a new Castle mascot."
> "What, like another neocat? They're, um, pricey," Tom Palmer
>observed.
> "I was thinking maybe a gryphon," Lindsey said. "School
>symbol, you know."

> Dukat said, "You know, we've doomed future Duelists to finding
>ever-weirder mascots now. Someone 100 years from now is going to
>curse
>us and our three-headed dog."

OK, now I wonder how long it is before they do get a gryphon.

“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington