She releases the hug and takes a step back, glancing to Ellisaria.

"So you found a dragon, huh? What's that like?"

Little giggle. And, in a whisper: "She's - big. Cozy."

"Does she give better hugs than I do? Be honest."

"I'm sorry to say - her hugs are more to my taste."

"But you give very excellent hugs, for a human."

"I'll have to live with that, then."

"And maybe you'll figure out how to transform into a dragon someday."

"I would definitely come back to show you that."

"I'll hold you to it."

"Then it's a date."

"I look forward to it."

Heee.

Little squeeze.

"Want to introduce us? Maybe she can give me some tips."

Heh.

And she turns to Ellisaria to introduce Ellie.

Sniff.

"You smell like dragon."

"Yeah, we think I might be part-dragon. Dragon ancestors, or something."

"Hm. More than that, I think. I do not recognize the flights, but I scent very little human in you."

"Could dragons ever be born or get stuck in a human shape?"

"It would take active intervention, in this world. But you are foreign."

" - It's possible with most dragons in the swath of the multiverse tied closest to the Astral Sea. Relatively rare, but, there've been a few cases."

"For one - a few rare spells can permanently alter someone's form. That's insanely hard to do to a dragon, but you can stack effects, and a newly hatched wyrmling won't be as naturally resistant to magic, nor as capable of actively resisting. And though polymorphing a wyrmling and abandoning her on a backwater would be weird, it's a big multiverse."

"Also... Some dragons can just change shape by themselves, naturally or through magic - and you could in theory get a wyrmling to shift to one form and forget how to change back. And the outcomes of reproducing while not in your natural form are weird and complicated, but most dragons who've shifted naturally will produce magical offspring that take the shape they're in at the time. Usually that's half dragons, but two dragons have ever reproduced together while neither was dragon-shaped - they'll produce a wyrmling with a non-dragon default shape."

"Though that gets very weird if they weren't shifted from an innate power - I've only ever heard of that one coming up with prism dragons, which are a rare kind of dragon known for entertaining themselves by manipulating societies and people, which can't shapeshift without external magic."

"Dragons that can shift into a humanoid without spells... Of the true dragons, that's silver, bronze, gold, all the imperials, and dungeon. Silver dragons are the big ones known for sleeping around, though honestly dungeon dragons are better shifters and more inclined to it, they're just rarer. There's others too - havoc, nightmare, dream, and astral of the outsider dragons, and in theory a sinborn dragon could change shapes, but those can't actually reproduce normally without very significant magical intervention."

" - Anyways, an astral dragon would be more likely than most others to end up in a weird corner of the astral sea, but Ellie doesn't super strike me as part outsider dragon? Those tend to be - kinda obvious."

"So, I'm either some kind of kidnapped baby dragon or what, like a double half-dragon?"

"Dunno." To Ellisaria: "Do you smell anything on her that isn't a dragon?"

Sniiiiiff.

"I do not."

Hum. "So, yeah, probably one of those two - or an arcane experiment of some kind, or there's a mystery dragon type with a really weird standard life cycle."

"Neat. I've always wanted to be an experiment."