Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It seems to bear some semblance to a horse.

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.

Spirit is the adoptive hatchling of Swift. She loves to run around with Swift but she can never really keep up. Spirit hates that she never grew up and at night she cries herself asleep and wakes up every morning lying beside Swift.