Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has a strong odor of turpentine, and your hand burns when you touch it.

And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing.

Young dragons are relatively defenseless. They are born with relatively soft scales, which are shed and replaced with harder ones as the hatchling matures. Once a hatchling’s wings grow in, it typically marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own and are usually left alone by their mother.

Calays is small and excitable, always bounding from place to place. His attention never stays focused on less than twelve things at a time, and when forced to pay attention, he fidgets all the time. Somahi, a dragon determined to eat strange berries guarded by Ikraga, has taken Calays under her wing and now both of them strive to enter the valley the berries are in.