@rpapo What dark side!? Reptiles are lovely creatures! People look down on reptiles because they see shiny scales and thing "Ew Slimy", or they think that because reptiles operate mostly on instinct that they're not very intelligent. Every single one has its own little personality and quirks. Snakes for instance will, if they find a way out of their enclosure, once they're recaptured and returned, they'll immediately return to where they escaped the last time as soon as they feel like they're not being watched.
@Valanway, @Arc - Look at the dust-cover to volume one. The first page of chapter one. Some time after I posted chapter one, I re-posted it with some extra stuff from the start of printed volume.