Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It likes hiding under dead leaves and attacking your ankles when you pass by.

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.

Despite attempts to keep her in ignorance, the Olive once known as Abeirehae finally pieced together the truth about an ancestral quarrel whose destructive effects were still being felt throughout her family tree. Unwilling to let whispers and feuds control her future, she added a syllable to her name in cryptic commemoration of her forbears' griefs and plunged into their perilous game of half-spoken truths, hoarding her secret until the time comes to cast the contempt of it all at their scaly old feet.