Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It’s very curious and fond of sweets.

And look! It has grown feathers! 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.

Dark Chocolate Delight and his brother Strawberry Liquorice Delight are quiet little dragons, never talking very much with the other dragons who populate the Cave. During their incubation, something went wrong with Dark Chocolate and Strawberry Liquorice's eggs, turning them dark and bitter. Whatever happened that February affected Dark Chocolate more than Liquorice, trapping him in a hatchling's body while his brother grew.

Dark Chocolate and Liquorice can be most often found with each other, discussing the romances of the Cave and the chances of failure they have. Dark Chocolate is more optimistic than his brother, and sometimes even comments favorably on a romance- something that Liquorice always reacts negatively to. He thinks Liquorice doesn't know, but Chocolate sometimes watches Perfectly Lovely with a wistful expression...