I noticed on the cover that when you see the dragons going around in the circle it looks a lot like that symbol that is five bats are connected. I'm not quite sure what the five bats mean but when I saw it it reminded me of that bat symbol because the bats are like in arches like the dragons tails go down like where the bats head and body are. In the gifted program at our school there is a class on bats and that is what I'm taking and that's where I learned about the bat symbols because there are books that have that symobl on it. There is a national association for people who help endangerd bats and they adopted that as their symbol and that's where I learned about it When Sing was talking about how the money and ideas and armies fade I was thinking the same thing because when you think things are the greatest power they really aren't because they really don't last. If money were the greatest power and you spend it then you know longer have it and beauty fades and you don't have it because that is the natural thing and armies can't last forever. You can get more people but eventually you run out. I don't know if the kids were really working together but they shared ideas. When you think about it what happened was what they did . . . they were helping each other; they were all making the same kind of costumm but it never says they were really working together. The part of the seed that will grow into the plant is in the center . . . the rest of the seed is just protecting it. The author says it is nothing because she was comparing it to the heavens and the earth and there isn't really nothing . . .there is just like air and time majigs.