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.

Mao and Jette are the best of friends, with each having an intense interest in literature. They often disagree over whose taste is better though, as Jette prefers nonfiction over what she calls "silly fairy tales". She is always reading up on new discoveries and ideas, but also takes in older texts to see how dragons used to think in times long past. She writes scrolls of her own as well, on anything from the way leaves fall from trees to the theoretical origins of dragonkind. Her guilty pleasure comes in the form of riddles and logic puzzles, as she enjoys challenging her analytical mind. Unfortunately, Mao does not seem to find joy in the logical world quite like she does, but the two of them are usually too busy with their noses in a good scroll to argue.