[ Alex is taking absolutely everything seriously right now. There's no option not to. ]

Does the dragon count? It looks something like a species I've seen back home, but that might just be a case of convergent evolution. Nature likes to repeat the same shapes a lot- probably why humans show up in so many worlds. [ And snakes in so, so many more. Nature really likes that shape. ] There's an animal that arrived with me as well. He's not edible. [ One meal is not worth losing the emotional stability of the cryptozoologist, lest Alex go all John Wick. ] He's trained to fetch small prey, should we ever find any. [ Usually after eating one or two of his own first, but he is a cat-bird hybrid, not a dog-bird hybrid. ]