Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has bright blue eyes, and is as clumsy as any other hatchling, but it never seems to get injured.

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.

A poem by y56443 to describe this little hatchling:

One cold and frozen brutal day,

No sun to warm the hidden way.

A winged hatchling, close to mature,

Was forgotten, under the fir.

Blue eyes gleaming, despite no sun,

Soon she was not the forgotten one.

A strange user, young but smart,

Kept this dragon, close to her heart.

In the deep forests of Siberia, y56443, a dragon hatcher, was lost. Shivering under a fir tree, she found a cold hatchling. She kept her, and after that cold day, named her Lost in the Cold.