Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It’s very festively colored.

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.

On the brink of death, this little hatchling refused to give up. It had already grown its wings, but it was running out of time. The dragonet wished and wished to be spared from death. On the day it was that the young hatchling thought it was to die, something miraculous happened. Suddenly, it stopped aging. Now, the dragonet lives forever as a child, allowed to play and frolick for the rest of time. A blessing and terrible curse.