Gaja blinked several times in rapid succession at the question. Why? Hadn’t he already said it was urgent? Wasn’t he asking rather than simply grabbing at the dragon to find out for himself?

“It’s urgent,” he repeated. “Someone was asking about human-shaped creatures and why they have bellybuttons. So I started wondering if you have one in your human form, too.” Since Gaja made the conscious choice to mimic human bodies, his human form has one. And then he got to wondering if Nam had one and, once the idea got stuck in his head Gaja simply couldn’t put it to rest.

“Can I see?”