Suggestion is a powerful thing, huh? Since she lived her whole life surrounded by her winged dragon peers, her wingless self couldn't help but believe that she could never possibly fly without wings. As a result, she never developed the instinct for flight itself. Being harshly ridiculed for it only reinforced that belief.
What she needed was a push to break the shackles binding her to the ground—her own sense of inferiority.
After all, dragons are not creatures bound by logic; they are magical beings. They fly beyond the limits of our logics. If they truly followed the laws of physics, those tiny wings wouldn't even be enough to lift their massive bodies into the sky.
Damn, couldn't believe that I was pretty spot-on on the guess. Lmao.