Sourcery  - Terry Pratchett

The temporal ruler of the sprawling city of Ankh-Morpork was sitting in his chair at the foot of the steps leading up to throne, looking for any signs of intelligence in intelligence reports.

[...]

Just by looking at him you could tell he was the sort of man you´d expect to keep a white cat, and caress it idly while sentencing people to death in a pirate tank;

[...]

Practically none of this was in fact the case, although he did have a small and exceedingly elderly wire-haired terrier called Wuffles that smelled badly and wheezed at people. 

 

 

It´s always fun to have the Patrician around.