Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon... except for the tangle of dangerous-looking vines surrounding it...

Now there are even more vines. Perhaps something is happening?

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.

When this small dragon decided that she never wanted to grow up, she suddenly grew tulips and vines all over her body. For the rest of her life she would remain with the curse of her wish, regretting every tangled, tripping, being-sniffed-by-other-people-and-dragons moment of it.