Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It’s a brilliant blue-green color.

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.

Every night, way up after midnight, she imagines a world of serenity that she draws with perfection. Every stroke in the sand near the ocean is swift and with precision. When the sand washes away in the tide, she starts anew the next night.