Una is the eldest of four siblings born to Nabi Fayed and Sable Sanger. While she was off getting degrees and meeting people who died on her, Ivo was busy rushing around the Nexus. Eventually, Ivo and Una had to sit down and have The Talk.

You know, the talk about "when are you going to find a dragon?"

Their cousin Shezumi and Ivo had gone off to Ryslen years before, and everyone knew that Ivo came home with a surprisingly large dragon. Una was not really put off by this, but more disinterested. At the time, she was busy at the medical clinic in Bijapur with her father. But now... Now that there were plenty of hints left by her brother that she really, really should come to the GoCat ranch, she did so.

There was a surprise waiting for her. In the form of a gift, though it looked like he would far rather have not had to wear a bow over his shaggy mane. The dragon wasn't fully grown, but would never be huge like Zkoth was - and it was Zkoth who stood towering over everything out in the sunny desert. It was Winter, but it was hardly cold in either of the more favorite parts of the world where Una visited.

"So... wait." She said, her voice was husky and full. "You ... got me a dragon."

"Actually he got himself," Ivo said, allowing himself to walk around with a tail and fur and little else on. "His father's a Sanger like us."

Una blinked, and gazed flatly at her brother - who hadn't explained the things he knew, nor had Una cared to look. She knew they had relatives spread across the whole world - Africa, China and Japan, India, Europe, both Americas and even a few in New Zeland. But... This wasn't that. They also had relatives of a sort in the fey realms, and this, Ivo explained was closer to the point.

He explained, and Una took him seriously, though she was apt to brush him off because he was rather a flake, that the multiverse contained worlds where their ancestor existed. Worlds where they were aquatic. Places where they had wings. Places where they were cartoons.

"And this one is the offspring of one which was, apparently," Una said, while indicating the young deerdragon, "a dragon with antlers."

"Truly gifted, no pun intended," Ivo said. "Okay, the pun was intended."

"How in the world does Shezumi put up with you?" Una muttered. She then turned her attention to the golden hided, dramatically marked deer dragon. "And what is your name?"

"Moyangulmandulda," said the dragon, startling Una.

"That's a lot of name for a little dragon, isn't it?" She chuckled. The dragonet nodded once.

"But I can do more!" He exclaimed, and suddenly there was a boy standing before her, not a dragon. Now, he had lost only his antlers - the rest of him wings and all was pretty much there.

"Colorful!" Una said, clapping. She had to resist shifting herself, and noted that Ivo had already done so. That boy was so shifty...

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