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Genesis... kept forgetting that they still had a Snom egg in their inventory.

The event it had come from was a long time passed by now, and they struggled just to remember which event it had been a prize from, given how eager they had been to jump into events on this game without thinking twice. One of the winter-themed events, that much they were pretty sure of, but...

Maybe their procrastination on getting that egg hatched came from their ambivalence towards the species as a whole. The Internet seemed fascinated by Snom, and it was cute enough, sure, but it also only learned two whole moves by level up, and the rest of its movepool wasn't much better for that matter. Frosmoth fixed that problem, admittedly, but it was also just another forgettable fully-evolved Bug-type, and Genesis wasn't all that eager to spend their hard-earned Bytes just to get a mediocre Bug-type an actual movepool.

(Part of Genesis was irked that evolution even had a cost in this game to begin with. It was just part of the process in most of the Pokemon games, and in here the benefit was usually just an aesthetic one, not anything with a benefit that really made it worthwhile... though Snom was one of those rare few where it actually mattered, of course.)

But they'd freed up a bit of bag space now, and they were sick of having that icon in their inventory, and... and it had been a long day of finals out in the real world, and relaxing in a virtual, illicit hot tub and just waiting around for an egg to hatch sounded nice. Shiloh's crappy New York City apartment didn't exactly come with a Jacuzzi built in, so this would be the best next thing.

Now all they had to do was wait... and try not to think about finals... and how they were pretty sure they blew that one question... and how this was the last thing between them and the bar exam, dammit, they couldn't afford to screw up now-

No. None of that. It was egg time now, and that was all that mattered.