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.

This hatchling walks up to a traveler who is sitting alone in an alehouse and buys them a drink. Sipping that drink is the last thing the traveler remembers before they wake up in a tub, submerged up to their neck in ice, with a note next to them telling them that their kidneys have been stolen and they need to seek medical attention. Kidney Thief eats most of the kidneys he steals but sells any he can't eat on the human organ black market.