"I grok.  But it's not because she's tattooed nor because of her snakes, I know.  She baffled you - she baffles everybody - because Patty never has any doubts; she just automatically always does the right thing.  She's very much like Mike.  She's the most advanced of any of us - she ought to be high priestess.  But she won't take it because her tattoos would make some of the duties difficult - be a distraction at least - and she doesn't want them taken off."