Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has bright blue eyes, and is as clumsy as any other hatchling, but it never seems to get injured.

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.

Myna was eating a piece of meat one day when she felt a curious tingle throughout her body. It soon left, however, and she thought nothing of it until three months later when her distraugh mother realized she was not growing. It was then discovered the poor Myna had been frozen as a hatchling...forever.