Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It loves watching the reflection of stars in the water.

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.

No one ever remembers seeing this hatchling awake. They all know that surely it must eat and drink and do all those other things that a dragon does, but whenever they look at it, it's sleeping. Those that wish it well hope it's having sweet dreams; those that don't often find themselves suddenly tripping as they pass by.