Abe nodded helpfully, making a mental list of everyone, and then added a few to his thoughts that the Prince hadn't mentioned but surely he'd want to see and speak to.
"It was rather like putting a sack of potatoes on a horse and letting the horse just go. He has improved greatly, thanks to the training of his teachers, and the patience of the Prince." For giving him pointers and continually taking him out even when he had to ride slower.
"It was a young girl who occasionally helped out with Orion," Hayner was dragging it out on purpose, "And she did not want to see the new keeper punished when clearly, she saw, he was foreign and unfamiliar with the way things were. It was, in fact, our very own Namine who saved his neck."
"No!" Corin gasped. "Truly?"
"She was his very first friend here," Hayner confirmed.