When your baby dragon backfires
Quite a common ailment among Cobs (baby dragons) when they haven’t quite got used to their own internal fire breathing anatomy and can suffer from trapped gas in the draconian equivalent of the sigmoid colon. The cob needs to be stimulated to expel this gas regularly to prevent a painful build-up, much like a human baby needs to be burped. Failure to do so by the mothers can result in several odd effects, including deformed flight bladders. but the most spectacular is when circumstances are just right for the trapped fire to spontaneously ignite and fire the baby dragon forward with incredible speed. Launch distances of over 100 meters have been recorded in some nests and the mothers have demonstrated themselves to be incredibly adept at catching projectile infants in flight, though allowing the children to fire themselves into the air has a noticeable effect on the dragon’s patience.
Treatment is usually to make sure there is no build-up in the first place, but if the gas is not released for several days, mothers will start to administer a brimstone enema.
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