Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It perfectly depicts spring weather.

And look! It has grown wings! 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.

Leetle Spring Blossom is deeply embarrassed by his name.  He thinks that it sounds too feminine, and suspects that his parents secretly wanted him to be a girl.  Leetle Spring Blossom, while the eldest of Flowernest Weyr's frozen hatchlings, has no desire to be leader, and is content to let one of the others take charge.