Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It must be very shy since it keeps hiding from you.

It’s gotten slightly bigger! 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.

AndesFresh is a tiny little thing who spends most of her time hiding from the much larger hatchlings for fear of being tramped on. Almost never noticed by the adult dragons, she lives in a mushroom patch.