Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It occasionally shoots small puffs of smoke from its nose, like it’s trying to breathe fire.

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.

Zyfor is a somewhat solitary hatchling who finds simple ways to amuse himself.  In one of his favorite games, he piles up sticks and branches all the time, then tries to pull them out of the pile one at a time without disturbing the pile as a whole.

     This may not seem like much of a skill, but he was instrumental in saving some creatures trapped in flotsam during a flood.  By maneuvering each piece of debris carefully but quickly, he was able to free them before they were permanently injured or killed.

     His lair is easy to find; it looks like a giant beaver dam away from water, against the side of a mountain.