Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It’s kind of shaky on its feet and enjoys playing in puddles.

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.

Sweetheart's Golden Lake is a frozen waterhorse hatchling. Though she remains ungendered and ungrowing to this day, she thinks she is a female, though she cannot be sure. As a young hatchling, Sweetheart's Golden Lake, or Sweet as she was called, often swam in the clear, pristine part of the lake that her clan's water dragons live in. She spent most of her time splashing around her aquatic home and relaxing on the sandy shore, where she played with blossoms as the trees swayed in the seaside breeze. When she was told she would become an adult and couldn't relax all day anymore, she begged one of the magi dragons to freeze her. However, they were reserving their magic and couldn't do it, so in desperation, she sought out Witewing, her clan's oldest white dragon. He agreed to cast the spell, and since then, she can be found playfully splashing Midnight Petal, her friend, and swimming around the shining water (which seems to shimmer gold in the sunlight) in the lake that she calls home.