Collaborators, Don't Give up Now!

All right, we're on our way to a paragraph, here...Let's give Madame Butterfly's telepathic communication a purpose, shall we?

Madame Butterfly, a disturbingly womanly dragon, seemed mystified by sudden changes and fleeting ghosts from Nowhere. Her Nowhere was communicating telepathically with a primal Entity deep within metaphysical meaning, wordless.

A first word....?


I thought I might add a bit of inspiration here, now that we have a character. I was thinking....
a disturbingly womanly dragon...


The above drawing is Milton Caniff's Dragon Lady, drawn for Terry and the Pirates, a comic strip from back in 1934. He based the drawing on Joan Crawford. The eponymous Terry was a kid who had inherited a treasure map, and the friends he took with him on his journey. Lai Choi San, the Dragon Lady, was one of the many dangerous pirates they came into conflict with along the way--but perhaps the most dangerous, as sometimes she appeared to be an ally, and other times, a villain.

Anyway, nothing wrong with pirates, and we needed some kind of visual stimulus, right?