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.

Seedli is a manageable sample of her species. In fact, that is why she was charmed to remain a hatchling. Her keeper needed to be able to better understand Vine Dragons, and found it safer to work with a young one, than to tempt fate with an adult. Be that as it may, Seedli is a prickly ward.