Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It must be very shy since it keeps hiding from you.

It’s gotten slightly bigger! 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.

Scurrytail is one of Phoenix's dragons. She is a nervous, quiet little hatchling who is afraid of just about everything. She dares not to venture outside of her home and from her foster mother, Minteye's side. She's afraid of playing with the other hatchlings for fear she'll fall and get hurt, and she's terrified of the other adult dragons, and even Phoenix slightly. The only other adult dragon Scurrytail likes very slightly is Littleflower, a young pygmy dragon.