[Chemistry might as well be witchcraft to some of those of older times, so he wouldn't have been surprised by the sentiment if Richard had expressed it. As it stands, he offers a simple remark on them that might help to explain.]
They use the power of heat to move, more or less. You can't avoid them where I'm from, so it's been... an adjustment, to not see them here.
[He regards the familiar steed and then the other horse with a level expression, gauging as best he can; he's certainly no expert on horse body language. Goldie, he says... perhaps Altius will find a steed of his own choosing that he can name with a slightly different... scheme. But that's not important, for the moment.]
Alright.
[To the point, just as Altius likes it. He very rarely turns down a conversation, but he does prefer to have practical matters sorted first. Richard will find him as attentive and precise a student as he could reasonably expect, despite his utter lack of expertise with horses in general. This is something he intends to seriously follow through with, after all.]
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They use the power of heat to move, more or less. You can't avoid them where I'm from, so it's been... an adjustment, to not see them here.
[He regards the familiar steed and then the other horse with a level expression, gauging as best he can; he's certainly no expert on horse body language. Goldie, he says... perhaps Altius will find a steed of his own choosing that he can name with a slightly different... scheme. But that's not important, for the moment.]
Alright.
[To the point, just as Altius likes it. He very rarely turns down a conversation, but he does prefer to have practical matters sorted first. Richard will find him as attentive and precise a student as he could reasonably expect, despite his utter lack of expertise with horses in general. This is something he intends to seriously follow through with, after all.]