Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has a pink cloud that follows it everywhere. You seem to be having more difficulty concentrating since it arrived.

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.

Melodic Dreams is the Permanent youngest member of the Daydream breed, for when he was very young he went wandering one day without notifying the wet-nurses, while the other dragons were asleep. He came upon a witch who agreed to let him free if he gave her a stage, he agreed, and she took his adulthood from him, keeping him from ever maturing.