He grew up and became the youngest engineer on their ship, mated to the prettiest partner in the group, and was envied by many of his peers. So why, then, did he feel so much was missing from his life? When the elders held a vote to see if they should return to the surface of the world their ancestors had left behind, he and his mate happily voted to return.

A small, curly-haired dog greeted them when their family group left their ship, and the couple joined the canine in her clan shortly thereafter. While admiring the architecture of his new home, Neutrino espied a dragon that resembled him and his mate across the clearing, and he smiled as he approached their first successful experiment...a dragon they had never met.