Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has a pink cloud that follows it everywhere. You seem to be having more difficulty concentrating since it arrived.

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.

Not long ago, everything this hatchling touched turned to gold. The hatchling made many fellow dragons happy by turning everything into gold—twigs, rocks, and even diamonds for the laughs. But on a fateful day, the hatchling felt a sharp pain in his 'touching' front leg. The Medicus diagnosed a 'mouse arm', a symptom where the limb hurts like being constantly bitten by a mouse. By orders of the Medicus, the hatchling is forbidden to use the front leg until the symptoms wear off. Gossips want to have found out that the hatchling will never fully recover from the injury, that Midas has lost his touch. As a result, the prices for gold have dramatically risen.