"I need some wildclaws." My friend says.
"I...have a wildclaw... right here." I perk up and dig in my lair.
"Oh?" She sits up.
"Yeah..." And I link it. We have very similar tastes. I had just won it, but I never planned on getting him, he has no mate, and I am reminded of a sadly failed pair I tried in the past.
"That is a very purple dragon." Another friend chimes in as he peeks at it and moves away again.
"He's so prettyyyyyy!" She swoons.
"I really like him...but I'm worried about finding him a mate..." I deign to say more on my past experience.
She links me a color range from nowhere. The colors are nice, but I wonder-
"What dragon is that?" and she links me a dragon page.
It's an imp.
"Do NOT pair him with an imp if you ever want to have wildclaw babies." I'm hissing this in my head, silently rallying support for my wildclaw enthusiast buddies, even if they can't hear my screams of terror at the thought of even more imps flooding the market. They all know anyway. But at least while Imps have risen and fallen and continue to flood the land, Wildkind are still safe.
I go the AH to search the females, doubtful that I will ever see one even half befitting my very purple male. I link her examples, browse the gem pages. Page after page, the stock is lovely, the assortment varied. And then one catches my eye and I link her.
"So many colorssssss!" She croons.
But then as we talk and others discuss other subjects in between, I continue to browse the pages, watching gem prices soar...until suddenly, the beauty ends. The shit begins.
Hideous babies. Bland babies. Geneless wonders in awkward colors fill my vision. Make it stop. IS THERE NO HOPE?
Slipping back to the conversation, she shows me a female she liked from the auction house. It's nice...but the range doesn't suit my purple fellow as nicely as what I've found. WHERE IS SHE? Peering back to the pages, I fly through, locating the the little greenish, colorful girl.
I click the button. Confirmation. Last space taken.
I go back to the conversation-
"I'm sorry. My finger slipped. He has a girlfriend."