This hatchling could hardly be considered cute.

And look! It has grown wings! At least it isn’t quite as naked-looking anymore.

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.

Bonecoal has a taste for carcass stew

Fermented in a nasty, lukewarm pool

Where bodies moulder in a witch's brew

With fish-heads, dogs, and one well-rotted shrew.

None but a marrow could consume this gruel.

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Each day, the little marrow tends the flame

With sticks or fire mana that she finds

And with the soup, she has been gaining fame

From the pungent scent, too rank to name

That turns the stomach yet intrigues some minds.

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Marrows flock from far and wise to see

The source of such uncouth repugnancy.

For ten mana shards and rotting meat

To refill the pot and sustain the heat

One can buy a bowl of stew to eat.