Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon.

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.

Paulchen always gets in some shenanigans or the other. No one really knows why, it almost seems as if someone was getting him into trouble, just to watch in glee as he tries to get out of it again. But surely there is no one out there who would find a poor hatchling's struggle against pain, distress, and possible serious injury amusing.