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Sooo... step one in finding romantic company in the saurian world is finding something of your species.

This can be harder than it sounds, but fortunately, a lot of 'em have species-specific traits or markings. Some are really only visible in the ultraviolet range, so if you can't see that color, pay more attention to crests and feet and hope for the best. Your males might look different from your females, but fortunately they tend to associate with each other. Observation generally pays off in the end.

Once you're reasonably sure you've found someone, and they're not horribly marred by tick infestations or fungi or something... Step two is getting them to like you. Get to hanging around them. Give them food. If they let you hang around without biting you too hard, good sign. If they eat the food, better sign. If they bring you food themselves, the situation is ideal.

Just a note, though, humans will give and receive food from things other than prospective mates and relatives, so adjust your expectations when they're around.

Being brightly colored helps. Being healthy helps. Apparently, acting like no normal member of your species helps, too; hanging around predators and so on, but be careful about that. No prospective mate is worth getting killed to impress.

[She's... not actually cursed, or she'd be admitting that this is almost everything she knows on the topic.]

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[Rose smiles a bit at this.]

So not much different then with humans. Minus the food bit.

Some things are universal, or almost.

Sorta seems like anyhow. There's certain bits you got to be careful with. Do this or that and you end up engaged on one planet or another but yeah...

Can't get engaged to prehistoric reptiles, as a general rule, but they can get jealous.

There's probably some sorta... equivalent to gettin' engaged or married though, innit there?

Nope. Nature's a lot less human than people like to think.

Most of the time, I think we just don't get to see it that way.

You know those people who have their dogs marry other dogs? It's completely meaningless to a dog. Dogs will have friends, 'special friends' even, but they don't know or care about being married or handfasted or whatevered to each other.

They don't think like humans do. They'll have some humanlike qualities, maybe, some of the same emotions, a sense of gratitude, but it only goes so far.

Always thought those people were daft.