Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It spends its time pouncing on insects.

And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing. It is also now covered in brightly colored stripes.

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.

Belushi is a short and stocky hatchling with a love for music and comedy. She is pretty good at comedic improvisation and therefore very popular among the other hatchlings. Some of the older dragons worry though—she has developed an unhealthy interest in the kind of intoxicating herbs Constantine and some of the other Magi dragons regularly consume. Those can hardly be healthy for a hatchling.