Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon.

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.

Princess Leela is a dragon-child of the Pseudo-Royal Hall, a clan of superb wanna-bes. Leela is one of a gaggle of frozen hatchlings residing in the Hall, watched over in their rough-and-tumble pursuits by forever patient Queen Varda, stoic King Duarte, and comical King Lucio. Leela particularily loves to accompany jovial Lucio, and is often seen tumbling around at his heels and nipping at his tail playfully, always in the same good mood as he.