Shadow Walkers are a strange breed that possess the ability to slip between the planes of reality, becoming immaterial. This allows them to hide in the shadows, either hunting from the concealment of near invisibility or evading enemies. Though they become corporeal to mate or to eat, they spend most of the rest of their lives walking in the shadows. Shadow Walkers are wary creatures, though on dark autumn evenings when the leaves fall to swirl in the chill, rain damp air, they may be seen drifting out from the shadows.

Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.

Spectral Shadowstorm and her friends have been haunting a nearby group of scaredy-dragons ever since Halloween. The dragons call themselves the Storm Pack and do indeed sound like the scream of a little hatchling in a tornado when they see Spectral and her other group members. This makes them haunt the pack even more, because, screaming dragons is very entertaining, indeed. Spectral is, however, afraid of one dragon: Chill Pill. He is onto them, and she knows it. She has seen him searching through the places where they had been seen, looking for evidence that they aren't ghosts.