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.

Kalkabek is Dragontown's first vampire, frozen as a hatchling to safeguard the local dragons and their eggs.  He's attached himself to the Nocturne Guards, and is a valued member despite a certain overzealousness that unnerves even Paynara.  Criminals Kalkabek goes after end up sporting numerous fangmarks, and he will keep biting even after they surrender.  Kalkabek shows a little more restraint since Pelka has started keeping an eye on him, which is just as well, or Zytengabar and Ornixa would have had him expelled from Dragontown by now.