Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. Its eyes glow brightly at night, and it enjoys attacking insects and small animals.

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.

Rules is an incredibly frustrated hatchling. No matter how hard this black dragon tries to be noticed, she always seems to get overlooked in the midst of adult dragons running around in circles, shouting about how their babies are about to die, or hatchlings wandering up to eggs and demanding to know what type of dragon is inside. She's stubborn, though, and she doggedly keeps trying to make people pay attention to her.