Modified animals, Frankensteined by home-lab kid enthusiasts with a gene kit and an incubator. Ismail’s pet dragon, a sad creature adapted from a Canary Islands Lagarto Gigante de la Gomera, part-meched with fire-breathing apparatus; the poor thing, coughing fire, had been nicknamed "Chamudi" by the boy, despite all evidence to the contrary, for there was nothing cute about it.
