Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It doesn’t move much, and appears to be covered in stone.

And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing. However, the wings look too heavy to fly and are filled with beautiful crystal.

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.

Crystal, as she is called, never wished to grow old. She felt she would never be ready for adult responsibilities and asked to be frozen. Even though she, as a child, should want to play with the other frozen dragonets, Crystal prefers to spend her time sleeping. Visitors to the cave often mistake Crystal for a stone and crystal statue of a geode. On the occasions that she is awake for any length of time, Crystal spends her time reading or talking about literature with whoever will talk to her.