"...oh," says Matilda, staring at the babies. "That's easy. They don't have hardly any magic at all; no wonder they die. Magic transplants are when I replace someone's dragon magic with ialdae. It does all of the same things, languages and fire and colour-group stuff and everything, but it doesn't get holes in it or suddenly go away. I should do it for those two babies. And then I should talk to the dragon council again and find out where all of the dragon babies in the world are and give magic transplants to all the ones like them."