Water Walkers are small dragons that are frequently found around bogs and ponds. While they are flightless, they retain the flight sacs and hollow bones of their airborne cousins. These traits, coupled with their extraordinarily long, webbed toes, allow them to stand on top of calm waters, using their small sails to propel them wherever they please. They spend the majority of their lives on the water, retreating to the tops of lily pads when the waters become too rough to float atop.

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.

Liletern has to be one of the most curious of the waterwalkers in her cave. Not only does she like to see just how strong water tension is by carrying as much as she can on her back, she also likes to jump off of large (and boy, do they mean large) reeds and make attempts at flight. She knows she can't fly, she just likes the sound of immense splashes on the water's surface.

Lileker and Lilecamp both have to deal with this waterwalker's curiosity, often involving them going through sessions of her comparing fin lengths, stretching toes, and even using them as test weights to try out the water's density.