Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It is very active and playful.

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.

Icedrop was frozen as a hatchling and no one is really sure how it happened. He sometimes gets unhappy about it but is grateful he grew wings before it happened so he was at least able to learn how to fly. All his friends grew up and he wishes he could be like them, he feels very left out a lot of the time.