Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It likes to play in small piles of sand.

And look! Its wings have grown larger! 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.

Tiny aquabeak suffers from a disease where he can't grow into an adult. He is a very sad hatchling because other dragons laugh at him. Due to this he is very solitary and doesn't play with the other hatchlings. His owner, meridragon wishes she can but she has no white dragons to cure him and doesn't know any spell that'll help. He wishes to become an adult one day but doesn't know how.