I was calling myself "dragonkin" then, partly because of the vanished K.'s lingering influence (@kel will fully cop to having been modelling xerself after K. at least at first) but also because it seemed like the best way to explain having that vision about swimming and flapping around. But it was also an ingrained part of the cultural education that I'd gotten, partly through @mona's love of Classics and partly through my mother's social and political awareness, for me to remember always that I was human, with human strengths and weaknesses. I couldn't write that off and pretend it was irrelevant.