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Todd Jensen writes...

In "The Journey", Margot believes that the gargoyles are not sentient beings, but merely savage wild animals. However, when the gargs rescued her and Brendan from the bank robbers in "City of Stone Part One", and Goliath asks her about "the children" (the Weird Sisters in their little girl form), Margot shows by her response that she recognized what he was talking about.

Since Margot's seen evidence already that gargoyles can speak, how does she reconcile that with her belief that they're non-sentients? Has she blocked Goliath's speaking to her at the bank out of her memory, or did she believe that it was "imitative" speech like that of a parrot, with no actual sentience behind it?

Greg responds...

I think fear has blinded her. Has she blocked it out? Maybe. But I'm not sure she's defining "sentience" in her own mind, as anything other than "human". She literally may not be thinking about what the word sentient means.

Response recorded on July 24, 2000