dragons or flaming chickens

No, incandescens, a glowing sigil will not appear on any part of your body however often you attempt to visualise it, and in any case, would you really want one? (The penalty for reading too much Fushigi Yugi straight. I finally caved in and bought volumes 10-18 -- in French, I note, and they only cost 5 dollars or so each, so -- and have been reading them. I am once again confirmed in my opinion that Chichiri was best. Ahem. And Nakago can join the group of villains-who-were-abused-in-childhood-and-grew-up-to-be-their-universe's-uberseme.)

Though really, she says irreverently, poor Seiryuu seems to have been treated most unfairly in the story. Why should the dragon be the more dubious deity? Give me a properly regal and powerful dragon over a flaming chicken any day. (Phoenix-fanciers may now throw things at me. Yes, yes, I know the significance and the four deities and all that, I'm just being irreverent.)

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"What is any man that he should be a judge of men?" he demanded. "These three were the tramps that once stood before him and were dismissed rapidly right and left to one place or another; as if for them there were no cloak of courtesy, no stages of intimacy, no free-will in friendship. And twenty years has not exhausted the indignation born of that unfathomable insult in that moment when he dared to know them at a glance."

--The Miracle Of Moon Crescent, GK Chesterton