In the early fifth year of Tianxi, a divine bird appeared in the world, its color silver-white, its wings spewing fire and smoke as it soared across the sky, and it fell to the west of the capital. — "Unofficial Records of the Northern Song Celestial Book"

"Divine bird? Why does this thing feel more like the crashed plane I was on?" The protagonist of this book, James Thompson, said with some confusion, "And also, whose eldest cousin am I?"