Talk:Aithusa/@comment-37017073-20180929223524

I really don't think it's fair to say that Merlin and Kilgharrah "abandoned" Aithusa when there's little or no evidence that hatchlings need anyone to care for them. Dragons aren't humans; why should we assume that they raise their young the same way? There are plenty of creatures in the animal kingdom that are left to fend for themselves from birth--especially among reptiles, which are the group that I would assume dragons to be closest related to.

Aithusa seemed perfectly fine on its own when it stumbled across Morgana. And considering it was capable of healing Morgana at all, without any particular struggle on its part that I remember, I don't think it's unreasonable to infer that it probably had at least some control over basic dragon abilities such as breathing fire, so it's not as though Aithusa was utterly defenseless.

All that said, I do think that Merlin could've kept better track of Aithusa, especially in regards to communication. At the very least he could've called it to his and Kilgharrah's meeting place every once in a while to check in and see what it'd been up to instead of apparently just assuming that no news was good news.