The image @Kc provide is very interesting. When we as a group looked at Ink's Tattoos, we made the connection to protection. Some of us went further off he deep end and wondered if there was a Jungian aspect to it. That some images go deep into he sub-conscious to the primal brain (1).

But, the one that seemed to work is not anything we recognized. This begs the question is there an external intelligence at work? Is it just a gas? Is there a parasite with its own intelligence?

(1) on an aside, I think a dragon is an amalgum of creatures we feared millions of years ago. It has the mouth of a crocadile which would ambush when we got water. A neck and tail like a snake which could surprise in the trees and in the long grass. Some were poison us and others were constrictors. It had wings like the eagles that could surprise us from the air and a big powerful body and forelimbs similar to a large cat that That could swat us and rake with claws.