Meow: once you're out this way, I'm totally going to make a special trip down and take you out to the cowboy bar for drunken country karaoke. Bird: you've gotta come, too, because if it's just me singing, then we're going to get booed off stage pretty quick.
Thanks! I'll have to ask my sensei about the symbolism of the fittings - my last sword had dragons; this one has dragons and horses. I know dragons by themselves are for luck, but I don't know what horses mean, or what dragons mean with horses.