Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It gives off a glow that lights up the cave.

Look, it’s grown frills, and the glow around it has become even brighter.

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.

From the moment he hatched, little Xiao Hai was sickly. He was weak and rarely had the strength to play like his nestmates. The days slowly dragged on and his keeper, Counterklock, worriedly raced to nurse him back to health, but there was nothing she could think of that could help the baby silver hatchling. In a final desperate act, Counterklock cast a strange spell on him and promised he would get better and be happy, and be able to play forever and ever. At first, Xiao Hai didn't understand why it was taking so long for him to grow up, before his keeper explained to him that she had cast the spell of Freezing. He had been given the gift of eternal youth, in truth.

Xiao Hai was grateful he would not die. He now accompanies his keeper as she travels, shy and unwilling to stray far from her safe arms, but when something catches his eye and makes him curious, he will stop at nothing to investigate it and see what makes it function.