Lazarus teleports to a front-doorish part of the iceberg house. He can't be much more specific than that without knowing how the place is built.
It turns out that the most front-doorish available location is a little ledge at the mouth of a tunnel, and the tunnel leads down into the underwater - and water-filled - regions of the iceberg. Lazarus peers down it, visually and magically.
He discovers that most-of-dragons are visible to his magic-sight from quite far off. He also discovers that his magic-sight can directly perceive the thing that makes them hurt, and how far along it is.
Many of them are quite far along.
He's really not sure how to get the attention of any nearby adult shrens - calling "Excuse me?" down the tunnel into the water probably won't cut it, although he does it anyway. But since it seems he doesn't need to be shown the babies, he sees no reason not to fix them all while he's figuring out the other thing. On the off chance that a single coin can solve the whole problem at once, he picks out all eighteen of the ones he can tell are experiencing the unpleasantness of not-flying, prioritizing by how far along they seem to be, and makes his first wish to apply to as many of them as it can cover. The number turns out to be five. He fixes the next five down, and then the next, and the next, and then the last three; if there are any more babies besides those, they must not be old enough to have started hurting yet.
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Lazarus teleports to a front-doorish part of the iceberg house. He can't be much more specific than that without knowing how the place is built.
It turns out that the most front-doorish available location is a little ledge at the mouth of a tunnel, and the tunnel leads down into the underwater - and water-filled - regions of the iceberg. Lazarus peers down it, visually and magically.
He discovers that most-of-dragons are visible to his magic-sight from quite far off. He also discovers that his magic-sight can directly perceive the thing that makes them hurt, and how far along it is.
Many of them are quite far along.
He's really not sure how to get the attention of any nearby adult shrens - calling "Excuse me?" down the tunnel into the water probably won't cut it, although he does it anyway. But since it seems he doesn't need to be shown the babies, he sees no reason not to fix them all while he's figuring out the other thing. On the off chance that a single coin can solve the whole problem at once, he picks out all eighteen of the ones he can tell are experiencing the unpleasantness of not-flying, prioritizing by how far along they seem to be, and makes his first wish to apply to as many of them as it can cover. The number turns out to be five. He fixes the next five down, and then the next, and the next, and then the last three; if there are any more babies besides those, they must not be old enough to have started hurting yet.
Now all he has to do is find someone to notify.