Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has brightly colored fins on its back.

And look! It has grown larger fins! 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.

Princess Avalin von Red,

was, of course, royalty,

never to cook, clean, or make the bed,

but nevertheless she was forced into slavery,

when her kingdom was breached by savages,

but she was not completely helpless,

indeed she was quite shrewd,

and using trickery and daunting tactics,

she manage to get away from the dragons, mean and rude,

for many weeks she traveled,

she learned to live alone,

but finally she stumbled upon,

what appeared to be a good home,

and she's been there ever since,

for many years and years,

but soon she grew tired of her isolated life,

and decided to go look for peers,

she found the company she so desired,

inside her current clan,

but to become a member, the process was dire,

still, she decided to commit herself,

she took the vow, she became one of themselves,

and now she's as happy as a princess could be,

her one problem now lays in her various duties,

she's a princess, she wants nothing more,

to lay around all day and do nothing,

but no! She has to do...chores!