Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It’s very light and enjoys bouncing all around.

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.

Neera the Extraordinaire is a frozen balloon dragon. As a young hatchling, Neera showed little to no interest in her hunting, patrolling, and fighting lessons. Rather, she would spend her time flying across mountains at breakneck speeds and rising so high into the air that nobody could see her. Eventually, her clan realized her gift, and today, she dazzles all the other dragons with her magnificent and seemingly impossible stunts.

On the night of Halloween, Neera was attacked by a mysterious, perhaps supernatural, demon with "red eyes" as she soared through the clouds. She died and was quickly rushed to the white dragons to be revived. Almost impossibly, she came back to the living, though she refuses to talk about what she saw behind the thick, veiled curtains of death.