Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. Like with the egg, time feels inconsistent around this hatchling.

And look! It has gotten bigger! 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.

The day Eterimin foresaw that he would never grow up, he decided to research hereditary conditions such as his own Peter Pan Syndrome. Whether by practice or talent, he is particularly good at peering into incredibly-unlikely possible futures, so he can see weather a hatchling from a given parentage would develop a heritable condition without the two "parents" he's looking at actually having an affair. He spends most of his time digesting this information and trying to suss out which genes are dominant over what. However, in times of plagues he sets down his research and joins Viral Corona's pandemic task force. He has never learned to tell the probability a given future will happen, but he can share that if it does, how susceptible different populations will be before the infection reaches them. By knowing who the most vulnerable groups are, the team can better focus their resources to protect them.