Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has bright, shiny scales and loves to play in the sunlight.

And look! It’s grown a forked spade at the end of its tail and long, tufted whiskers! 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.

Much to her chagrin, Sesaka's behaviour is frequently opaque—not only to others, but to herself as well. It's a mystery to everyone why she occasionally loses her composure over minor quibbles but can just as well be entirely calm through storms of verbal abuse. Similarly, there seems to be no deterministic way to make her happy, and she occasionally appears chillingly flippant when one would expect her to grieve. None of this would pose much of a problem, she suspects, if she were at least consistently off kilter, but four times out of five she reacts as one would expect. The frequency of her unexpected behaviour has left her very nearly without friends, owing to the distress she's caused them. Despite her own best efforts to control her behaviour, true self-control continues to elude her, something that frustrates her... four times out of five.