Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It skitters around in the shadows, seemingly repelled by light.

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.

This hatchling has been carefully studying human behavior. Living close to a human settlement, the hatchling has plenty of opportunities to watch the frail creatures carrying out their daily duties. Human hatchlings are of special interest to her—their behavior can be very irrational at times. Human biology has only scratched the decipherment of human rituals. Human hatchlings sometimes refer to other human hatchlings as 'four eyes'. What would be so special to have four eyes...