Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It spends a lot of time stalking and pouncing playfully on the tails of adult dragons nearby.

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.

This hatchling has a cricket farm. She trains them to chirp in chorus and at conducted beats, creating amazing cadences and unusual harmonies. The crickets work hard to perform for her, because when they do well she permits them to mate. Krykkitmaizdro particularly favors love songs; the crickets consider that quite appropriate.