Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It likes to chase fish in shallow water.

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.

Possessing unusually tiny back limbs, this dragon has spent much of his life either crawling on his belly or gliding, a trait that has made him rather unusual among his contemporaries. Far from resenting his difference, however, Dorzin embraces it, frolicking about the waves and pretending to be a dolphin (no matter how much his long suffering mother pleads with him to pretend to be a Blusang instead).