Yali is a <color=#C0CFEF>dragon</color> who hates to wear clothes. She was discovered by the MC of her story on a planet terraformed by a rogue AI, a planet filled with aggressive megafauna, toxic plant life, a generally pretty bad place not well suited to human habitation. While MC is cataloging plant life, she casually approaches. MC stares at her transfixed and unbelieving while his travel companion panics and orders the AI orbital defense platforms to open fire, though the AI assesses the situation, identifies her as human, and refuses to comply. She follows MC around with a curious and carefree attitude unbefitting of the hostile environment to which she is native. Late one evening, MC’s camp is attacked by the apex predator of this world, a huge and hostile creature. Yali rips its beating heart from its chest so quickly the incident has to be replayed in slow motion from the security camera footage to find out what exactly happened. Yali never speaks, though she seems to understand when people speak to her. She skillfully uses tools that interest her and otherwise displays a human level of intelligence, though she hates to be put in clothes. As far as modern medical technology can tell, she is nearly 500 years old which places her as one of the lifeforms originally created by the terraforming AI itself. She is affectionate and enjoys having her tummy rubbed. She is strong, fast, intelligent, biologically immortal, can regenerate from any non-fatal wounds, and, the MC is surprised to discover, capable of breeding with humans.