George's friend from Isaac Asimov's story “Softly in the Snow” (a series of stories about the demon Azazel), writer Septimus Johnson, loved solitude, for which he bought himself a remote villa in a remote corner of New York state, where he wrote his novels. But for four months of the year, snow covered all the paths and roads, so he could not live or create there. Only Azazel could help here...