Shimmer-scale Dragons are a very beautiful breed with small—but highly reflective—scales that shimmer and shine as the dragon moves through water. They don’t have fins or webbed feet, but their long, eel-like bodies allow them to swim quite fast. They were once rumored to carry large pearls in their claws—causing many to seek them out in search of this fabulous treasure. In reality, the “pearl” is of greater value to the dragon, for the fabled treasure is actually an egg carried by a migrating female.

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.

The Infinite Monkey Cage talks with science- and comedy-minded dragons in front of an audience at a theatre. The show is her name: "The Infinite Monkey Cage", and it's mainly about science conversed in a way that everyone can understand. She and her panel have covered topics such as science fiction compared to science fact, randomness and probability, maths, and brains, and the comedians in the panel ask the "stupid questions" that makes the show more accessible. It's inevitable that once a series, someone will bring up why the Infinite Monkey Cage calls the programme "The Infinite Monkey Cage" and what that means (infinitely large monkey, or an infinite number of monkey cages, or whether an infinite monkey can fit in an infinite monkey cage...), and someone will also ask when a strawberry is considered dead. It's unclear if the Infinite Monkey Cage is tired of these two subjects or she enjoys the long-running jokes.