This hatchling appears to be... dead?

Perhaps not. It seems to be active during the night.

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.

Peremo was once a Canopy egg, found near death by a clan member. She was brought in to the bull vampire of the clan and transformed into another Vampire, for if she died before hatching, it would merely be part of a Vampire's natural cycle. Able to avoid permanent death in this manner, she hatched within the hour into the caring hands of the dragon who found her, Cytisus.

Although the other hatchlings were nervous around Peremo at first, she soon became fully accepted into the clan and plays with the nocturnal hatchlings every night. Scared of accidentally biting one of her friends, she had her fangs removed quickly and fairly painlessly by Opulentus, and thus now plays without worry. As Cytisus is asleep at night and can't watch over Peremo, the clan's adult female Vampire Ofella has taken the night care duty, taking Peremo with her during hunts and teaching her the necessary skills to survive.