Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It enjoys swimming in a nearby pond.

And look! Its fins and tail have gotten bigger, and you’ve moved it to a larger body of water to swim in. 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.

Santayana Goodbye, who has been enchanted to remain a hatchling for life, is one of the three dragons to never leave the dragon-made pond in the cave he inhabits.  The other two are Goodbye's father, Christian, and his older sister, Studebaker.  Goodbye enjoys playing with his sister, but since she is an adult, there is a gap between the two.  Goodbye tries to make friends with the other hatchlings, but his gruff nature inherited from his father makes it difficult.