Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. Its scales give off a beautiful golden gleam.

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.

Not All Deaths Are the Same mentions death a lot, but she's not, in the words of her parents, "excessively obsessed with it". It's understandable because for a child, she's seen a lot of dragons die and has come across many an adventurer's skeleton. At the moment, her magic use is limited to a spell that requires blood—be it her own or her last meal's or anything else's—to summon an apparition that can protect her.