Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It looks very sick, as though it wasn’t very well looked after...

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.

Once upon a time this little neglected was a spoiled, snotty bronze tinsel. Then one day her mother said "I've had enough of this bunk" and abandoned her underneath a sleeping stone dragon.

A week later she was discovered under the stone, cold and sick, by a roaming pygmy dragon scientist. Sadly, she was no longer a tinsel and the other shiny dragons shunned her. She was adopted by Nauseous and Wimpy, who are every bit as over-emotional and insecure as she is, and they now live as a very unhappy and whiny family.