She's certainly soft and has great whiskers, but Strange's daemon is more of a grey seal than a harbor seal: she's four hundred pounds, and six or so feet long. A bit hard to cuddle.

"That's assuming I want to be cuddled in the first place, which I don't," the seal remarks, with a little tut-tut noise and a sigh. "And he's from Shropshire, not Egypt."

Because he knows what the next question out of Julien's mouth is going to be, Strange buts in with, "More broadly, I'm English."