Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It perfectly depicts spring weather.

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.

Springdrake is one of Phoenix's dragons. She is a daring, headstrong and playful hatchling who gets along with just about eveyrone, and modeling after her best friend, Tlinglit, an adult spring dragon. Springdrake has served as a flower girl for a few weddings, scattering petals around, but mostly she likes to fly up high in the sky and shower flower petals on the other hatchlings below and confuse them. They still haven't figured out it's her, but they've started investigating, so she's had to get more stealthy.