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.

Grace Rosewind is a beautiful, delicate pink. As a member of a clan where there are about three males to every female, she is showered with gifts and affection from males in hopes that she will accept them as her mate. Rosie, as her friends call her, wishes secretly for a mate to come along with more than just good looks, and not so secretly that Nightshade would leave her alone. As a Dorkface, Nightshade thinks that he automatically gets his pick of any girl in the clan.  If an unplanned egg suddenly appears, it's not hard to guess the father. When not fighting off men, Rosie indulges her fascination with writing words. When she was a very small child, she found a page of a very old Bible in a field far away from her home. Enchanted by the strange markings, she took it back to the cave and learned to painstakingly copy the pretty things in berry paint. When she showed it to one of the elders, she learned that they were called "words.