Sometimes a normal will have lighter eyes....the gold stripe on the face will cross the eye, as it does in this one. It doesn't really matter if that one had a pastel parent....it's still a normal. It IS possible that the guy selling it was just as uneducated as the person buying and assumed the lighter eye meant it was a pastel and he didn't mean to rip anyone off.....But that's all water under the bridge and really has no relevance to the lessons learned here. Good lessons.