Dragongirl has slithered down the Pearl Stalk into the Chaotes, drinking barrels of Martian tea and beer and devouring feasts of baked clams, sweet potatoes, fish, rice, crane, beaver, pine nuts roasted in birch syrup, shrimp and crab. She graciously allows her admirers (everyone who sees her) to shower her with gifts: nuggets of gold, platinum and iridium, precious gems as large as her thumb, the fine painted porcelain that the Chaotes are known for, precious jars of Marsgrown spices and perfumed oils, even an aircar aglitter in titanium and sapphire.