Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It was born with a full set of wings.

And look! Its wings have grown larger! 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.

This dragon has sacrificed the life of an adult dragon for one thing: book work. That's right. Every single day, she tears through stacks and stacks of papers and documents that use big, confusing words like "commensurate" and "antidisestablishmentarianism" to sort out the trade market of the Ridgewing community she lives in. The Ridgewings often trade mountain resources to humans in return for gold and food, and she was the only one willing to adopt the extremely human practice of bookwork. In fact, she was even excited to do it! When questioned why, all she says is "I do it for me" and says nothing else.