Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It seems to consume charcoal and ashes.

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.

BoldBrimstone is a Brimstone Dragon hatchling who isn't scared of almost anything, except for spiders. There are these large desert spiders near his home, as big as a human's dinner plate, and he is just terrified of them. BoldBrimstone is certainly bigger than the spiders, and they are almost as scared of him as he is of them. This doesn't matter, they are just too scary for BoldBrimstone.