Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It likes garnets, but only certain kinds.

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.

Xalal is very finicky about her food preparation. She makes sure everything she eats is sterile by heating each item to a very high temperature with a short burst of her flame. Her diet consists only of seared food, blackened on the outside but often juicy and piping hot on the inside.