Interspecies relationships weren’t forbidden under the terms of the International Treaty on the Recognition and Protection of Supernatural Creatures (or just the Treaty, as we all called it), but they were frowned upon for all number of reasons. Religious intolerance, xenophobia… practicality. The human body wasn’t designed to bear a naga child. As my parents well found out. Auntie said it was a miracle I’d survived. Mom wasn’t so lucky.