It really didn't surprise anyone much, that Ivo's other children - those sired while he traipsed around the multiverse - would eventually show up at the Healing Den or parts of the Kshau Protectorate. Especially when those children were also the offspring of genrehoppers like Raanatani. No one quite knew when exactly this child had been sired, but Raavita showed up as a young adult, with dragon in tow, to celebrate the holidays with at least some of her kin.

And it was entirely likely that she would find a partner among one of the many shifters, Sangers, or assorted lot of Den inhabitants, while she stayed... Her dragon, a small crystal-white male of Alskyran origin (not really a surprise there, since Raanatani spent most of her time there and likely bore Raavita while on Paniya island) wasn't very talkative, but was quite selective about talking to the right dragons or people. He'd get good 'seats' for them (he was almost too small for the big tiger-cheetah shifter to ride, actually) for any festivity meeting, and had even scored them a temporary den which was nicely dark and comfortably warm with a big fire hearth.

They were private, both dragon and woman, but once you got either of them going, it was clear that they enjoyed being around people, and particularly these people. Baeris wondered: what was it this girl did in her regular life, that she wound up here without even a scrap of winter gear? It wasn't until she literally brushed up and bumped into her during a little drinking talking gather, that Baeris realized her skin wasn't just dark - it was furry like velvet. She needed no real clothing - not like Ivo when he ran around wearing only a tail and ears. But then again, he was outside the curve for polite society, anyway, right?

Raavita snuggled up with whoever was convienent, when they started opening gifts. The big tree was begging to be climbed, but Ivo assured her that when they were last caught and pulled out of there, the tree itself might have started acting up against their clawing and nesting... So Raavita took her father's words as a caution. They'd wait until it was after the season. Find the tree again (the Den assured her that it would be planted in a place where it would be retrieved again next year) (and how the Den communicated with her, she wouldn't say)  so she'd have time to play in it later.

What kind of gifts would they get? It looked like there were plenty too many gifts wrapped up and stashed under the massive tree for everyone even within sight, let alone actually present in the Den...