Pink Dragons are primarily herbivores and only eat meat during the mating season, when mates will exchange kills. When it is not breeding season, pink dragons spend most of their time incubating eggs and caring for their clan’s young. Due to their feminine color, it was traditionally thought that pink dragons were a strictly female breed, but this is not true.

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.

As a hatchling Kyra was always busy, she wanted to see everything and do everything in a short time, as if life was going to end on reaching adulthood. She tried swimming with he water dragons, racing against skywings and whiptails and other things she was not really meant to do, things she could never be good at. Suddenly, she couldn't handle all the stress and became sick. The healers of the cave gave her their full attention, but the best help came from an unexpected source; the spring dragon Spirit of Spring, who has the ability to mentally project calmness into the minds of others. Kyra soon recovered and was very grateful for the help. She was also changed a lot. No more stress; she takes it easy now, realizing she has a very long life ahead unless she burns herself out again. Now Spirit's care has had an interesting side effect: Kyra now too has the ability to project calmness, and she studied long (but not too hard) with Spirit and the Magi dragons to learn to use this ability.