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.

Once upon a time, so they say, there was a country that was overrun with dragonlets. Black of scale and sharp of teeth, they swarmed throughout the land, not yet old enough to grow wings and fly away. In desperation, the human inhabitants forgot the sacred nature of dragon life, and took to smashing eggs and attacking the little black lizards that thronged their cities. Separated from her mother and alone in a human city, little Lace quickly came to fear for her life. She lived in the shadows until the day that Kione's group of kindly dragons smuggled her out of the city under cover of darkness, shielding her from harm. Safe in a warm cave in a distant land, Lace met a little white dragon called Shine Rush, who taught her that there was more to life than forever being fearful. His friendship is constantly inspiring her to do things she would otherwise never attempt.