Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It’s very festively colored.

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.

Burning the Clocks is bewildered and troubled by the behavior of the other mistletoes. The hatchlings say that they are all "girls", while he is a "boy", and they sometimes point at and poke him while squeaking mischievously. The four adult mistletoes in the clan are "women", which the "girls" will eventually become when they're older, so maybe the titles have to do with age or rank. Or maybe everyone's conspiring against poor Burning, telling him he's not like everyone else, telling him there are other dragons in the world that have his attributes because they don't want him around. He'll show them. He'll grow up to be a perfectly normal, likable woman like the rest of them.