[that actually gets a chuckle out of him. Good work, Cecelia. The furfly swoops around but is easily left behind as they walk on - barely, it drifts a fair number of paces behind but there's no completely shaking it now that it knows where its master is]

Has anyone of a magical bent done any sort of survey to find out how familiars and their people relate to one another? In symbolic sense, I mean. I don't have time to indulge further curiosities but now I am somewhat curious.