Blue! Wallow was blue! The little firelizard peep-cheeped up at
N'kin, reaching out one little foot to try and balance himself up against the man's chest, if able.
"Blues! My first was a blue," Shalaera reached out to stroke Mele, who postured over one of the greens and hissed at the offender. She bapped his nose for it. "Let's see.....I bet the first blue to impress will pick a boy, and the last blue to impress will be to a girl!"
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"Is it a surprise if they're a candidate, though?" Shalaera asked
En'cai with a smile, having scooped up the troublesome Mele to cradle like a baby once again. "I mean, I think quite a few candidates are Hold-born now a days, aren't they?" Still, she pondered the thought for a moment.
"I think our first impression will go to a candidate of Western Weyr." 'Our'. As though she had any involvement in the process at all.
[Shalaera counterbets that the first blue to impress will pick a boy and the last blue to impress will pick a girl
Shalaera counterbets the first to impress will be a Western Weyr candidate]
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Laena let out a friendly cheep as the pair passed by before flopping uselessly onto her side, stretching her legs out like someone begging for a hug. Mele, still cradled in Shalaera's arms, hissed about it.
"Of course! How can we not have bets?" it was half the fun and Shalaera knew she wasn't the only one taking them.
Shifting Mele to set him down on the seat beside her, Shalaera considered the placed bets and what her counters for them would be. HmmMMmmm.
"The first girl to impress will be from High Reaches," Shalaera started, though the odds weren't all that great, "and I bet each of your twins will impress a candidate from a different Weyr - or from the stands. Neither from the same place, basically."
[Shalaera bets that the first lady to impress will be an HR Candidate.
Shalaera bets that if there are twins, they'll impress candidates (or standidates) from different places - if a standidate is from a Weyr, that counts as the Weyr so an HR candidate and an HR Standidate, for example, wouldn't count)]