Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It’s very festively colored.

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.

On Christmas morning, it began sleeting; a small flake of snow fell slowly from the sky and quietly settled in the cave. All the dragons were curious and went to see, finding this sweet red striped hatchling. He was shaking because of the cold and disoriented because he did not know where he was, so the adults, touched, made space in the den and began to warm him with their breath. Once refreshed, the baby dragon asked if he could stay with them, saying he did not want to grow up; the request was so tender that Ahilbe decided to fulfil his desire.

Since then Lluwch o Eira remained like that, and will be ever since, in fact, a little snowflake.