Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. You have trouble focusing when it gets angry.

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.

The magi teacher was losing patience at the boisterous desipis youth. "If you don't stop bullying your peers like this," she said amidst harrumphing growls, "I will freeze you." The desipis stood taller and grinned broadly. "Freeze me, freeze me. I can handle it!" he said. "Ice won't stop me, Headmaster. Freeze freeze me!" The puff of dusty turquoise magic appeared to do nothing, and the youngster roared and cackled and marched out of the room, wings open and head held high. It was three years later when he realized something was awry. Everyone had grown big and powerful except him. He found he still couldn't muster enough magic to do worse to the flimsiest of wills than a daydream can. The now-adults won't stop calling him Freeze Freeze Me.