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.

Watermint is a hatchling that never wanted to grow up. Almost as soon as she hatched, she repeatedly asked her mistress to be frozen, and live on eternally. Once she grew a bit bigger, the mistress granted it to Watermint, and now she plays with the other frozen hatchlings, grateful to her mistress for giving her her wish.