[center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/190522/5ec07975271d6ef3e7be9e67e7144f35.png[/img][/center][right][hr][b][color=ffe4b5]Kotana[/color][/b][hr][/right]Of course, traveling by horseback. Another staple of storybooks, another difference between his former life and his current one. Kaito was sure he wasn't the only one with no experience riding horses, as Japan wasn't the sort of country where one could acquire both large animals or space easily. It seemed tame and even romantic compared to all of the previous hardships they had faced, although he knew it was a discipline, one that wasn't going to come without its hardships.

[color=ffe4b5][b]"No... I'm sure none of us have ridden horses, at least properly and not as a novelty done in fairs. Our home used machines for transportation. Machines for almost everything, actually."[/b][/color] He felt the explanation was simple enough. 

Some of what Hiroko said had stayed in his thoughts, and he gave her a cautious glance as he continued. [color=ffe4b5][b]"If riding a horse is considered a skill, there [i]is[/i] a possibility we could develop some affinity for it just as we did with this land's language."[/b][/color] It wasn't just combat they had been gifted proficiency in, he was thinking.