Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon.

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.

Hiiyal is a flirtatious show-off, nearly always walking around on her two front legs—unless she's flying, showing off her glittering gold wings. She has an eye for, well, all the young male hatchlings, but one in particular has captured her attention: a frozen winter hatchling named Ionid. He, however, is in love with Dialora, another frozen winter hatchling. This makes Hiiyal very angry, and she often tries to get his attention using unconventional means, such as rolling in rose petals (unfortunately she didn't remove the thorns) lining her eyes with coal (and the rest of her face as well, accidentally) and sprinkling gold dust on herself (though all it did was make her look dusty). Were it not for her obsession, Hiiyal would see that most of the hatchlings liked her for her not for her beauty, but her friendliness and her willingness to make friends with anyone.