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.

LittleBuck is a small dragon buck, even for a Water Walker. He is madly in love with a Stone Dragon named BigBadQueen. She is many times bigger than him, but he is quicker than her, so he doesn't see anything odd with their relationship. She bosses him around and fights with him constantly, but he does his best to make her happy. LittleBuck would do anything for her, even put up with her mental screaming matches and her habit of putting him down. She tells him all the time how small and insignificant he is, and how he ruined her life. BigBadQueen really does love LittleBuck, she just can't show it in a healthy way.