Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. Despite being as black as outer space, it has a few bright patterns on it.

And look! It has grown wings and its scales have gained beautiful patterns. 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.

This hatchling is an avid flier. His specialty is low altitude flight, as close to the ground as possible. The hatchling developed a way to sweep his wings variably to adapt his body geometry in-flight to reduce drag and gain buoyancy. Unfortunately, the hatchling uses his abilities for monkey business. He likes to do to human heads what pigeons do to human carriages, and he carries an enormous payload in what the hatchling likes to call his 'internal weapon bay'.