Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. The flame on its tail casts a flickering light.

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.

There are some very weird people down in the mine who apparently like Jec's smelly fire. They catch her while she's sitting idle and they're bored, and they sniff her tail. Her particular odor seems to make the miners quite happy for a while. Jec feels this is creepy in some way, but she can't put her finger on why. They're lucky she's so nice; otherwise, they'd be lost or crushed by stalactites without her guidance.