Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It’s kind of shaky on its feet and enjoys playing in puddles.

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.

U, as he is called in the cave, got his name from a crazy thing that happened when he was frozen. The Magi that performed the spell mispronounced a word, and ended up freezing his water instead. They HAD frozen U (age-wise) but they had trouble getting him out of the frozen pond. U is now petrified of ponds during winter.