The Adventures of Stagger Li

Chapter Fifteen

Stagger Li’s Laugh

Lest you religious, who divide the world into the Saved and Lost and the Good and Bad, too
readily try to force Stagger Li into the Lost Bad box, hold off! The world is more complex than
you think.

The Noirior is a warrior moving through Hell. The lotus flower blossoming in the purest radiant
Light simultaneously has its roots in the blackest muck. The Noirior knows how to outhell Hell
partly through attunement to this higher Light. Though at times the attuning occurs only through
the slenderest of filaments, the Light does not let go and neither does the Noirior.

This is the case with Stagger Li, a formidable force who is not cowed by Evil Darkness nor the
grinding jaws of Hades himself. No matter the agony and seeming hopelessness of the situation,
Stagger Li has a secret weapon. His laugh. A laugh of Light. But it is a two-edged sword, that
laughter. Sometimes it gets him in deeper trouble before it gets him out.

We shall see that is so as he approaches The Ox.