Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It hides in dark spaces and lunges at anything that gets too close. Small piles of bones are accumulating outside of its “lairs”...

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.

Carpet was always a hyperactive hatchie. She would get herself in all sorts of trouble. In an attempt to mitigate the destruction her hatchie could cause, Taste would bundle her up in a large, brightly colored carpet. Though, she was never able to use the same carpet twice. By the end of each day, the carpet would be in tatters, unable to withstand an almost constant attack from hatchling claws.

Kanaye just replaced each carpet calmly, deciding she would rather pay for a carpet, or eighty, rather than having to entirely refurnish her cave every week.