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.

Everyone expected Yoia to be female. Even though his father was pink, no one seemed to notice that there was no reason for that to be true.

So after the tenth time he was told to go play with dolls, he walked into the Lower Ice and disappeared.