Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon... except for the tangle of dangerous-looking vines surrounding it...

Now there are even more vines. Perhaps something is happening?

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 is all but confident. She's constantly walking around paranoid about god-knows-what. With every day she groans, "It's one day closer to the end!" She insists that sometime in the next few years that the world is going to come to an abrupt end. The other dragons just sneer at her and claim she has no proof and that no one can predict the future. Nevertheless, she continues her pacing and groaning and awaits the fateful day in December when she believes her days will end.