Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It sleeps a lot, but when it’s awake, it’s quite a handful.

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.

Fluffling is the most adorable hatchling in his habitat, and he knows he always will be. He often takes advantage of this fact by sleeping anywhere he wishes, secure in the knowledge that not a single dragon in the area has the heart to wake him. His mother and father often have to answer to this habit when other dragons find the pillow hatchling curled up in the most inconvenient places (on top of the burnt-out bonfire pit, in the middle of the warriors' sparring grounds, nestled in a berry bush someone had started snacking on), but the pair just laugh it off and retrieve their little Fluffling. Occasionally, when his mother is awake enough to catch him before he bolts out of the cave every morning, he ends up cloud watching with her. He doesn't mind, but he'd rather sleep than look at the silly white puffs in the sky. Though he is generally easygoing with others, he absolutely hates the Specialist's visits, as she simply will not let him sleep and sometimes even hurts him!