Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has long toes, and likes to wander around on lily pads.

And look! Its toes have grown longer and developed webbing! 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.

Yuriu-oka has not quite grown enough to be good at walking on the water like her mother MizuAruku. Fortunately, she has plenty of fun jumping from lily pad to lily pad keeping up with her mother as best she can.

Her name means lily walker.