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"Yeah, they're all over the place. And, I don't know, mules?"

[pandion]

"Oh yeah, mules exist. I forgot them."

[hold_infinity]

Robin giggles.

[pandion]

"Has anybody tried to make a four-panthera vigorous hybrid thing? Like, with real animals?"

[hold_infinity]

"Don't think so. Most of them have been crossed with each other at least once, though."

[pandion]

"And then the baby ones don't get along when they grow up or they're like mules and it doesn't matter if they do or don't?"

[hold_infinity]

"Or the zoo where they live doesn't have one of the other two species, or they just have a girl leopard and a girl liger, or they don't feel like trying it, or whatever. I don't know. Some of the hybrids are fertile, though, with the parent species."

[pandion]

"If I ran a zoo I'd mix 'em up all kinds of ways." Pause. "There is probably a reason I don't run a zoo."

[hold_infinity]

...Robin laughs.

[pandion]

"Eventually I'd try to crossbreed a penguin with a puffin and it just wouldn't go well."

[hold_infinity]

"Don't run a zoo," giggles Robin.

[pandion]

"But it'd be so convenient, I could borrow cool animals to acquire from other zoos and we wouldn't have to make long trips or sneak around at night."

[hold_infinity]

"...All right, run a zoo, but don't breed anything."

[pandion]

"Not even little baby pandas?"

[hold_infinity]

"How personally do you want to be involved in producing the little baby pandas?" she inquires.

[pandion]

"Whoa, that might've come out wrong?"

[hold_infinity]

Robin cracks up.

[pandion]

"I would like to have a little baby panda. As a pet or to morph or both. I bet pandas are a happy morph."

[hold_infinity]

"Right," says Robin, "that would be adorable - I'm not saying run your imaginary zoo with no baby pandas allowed, I'm just saying, the easiest way not to go overboard on something is to make it somebody else's job. No pestering the staff to send the snow leopard and the clouded leopard on a date."

[pandion]

"Ooh. And then I also don't have to do any work."

[hold_infinity]

"That too!"

[pandion]

"Awesome, set me up with an imaginary zoo. I am delegating," says Andi, waving a hand in Robin's direction.

[hold_infinity]

"Where am I gonna get an imaginary zoo?" she demands, giggling.

[pandion]

"That's your job! Delegatinnnng!"

[hold_infinity]

She giggles some more.