"Nice to meet you, Kyri," Daniel said with a smile as he shifted Alek in his arms.
"Hi," Michaela said with a shy smile before she turned back to the horses. She pulled out another piece of fruit and gave it to the white horse.
When Kyri asked to see Alek, Daniel nodded and carefully handed the puppy to her. As she examined it, he stepped back and stood by his wife before looking at Noll, Kaevan and Ellia. "Do you know what these animals are?" he asked.
"We call them equitos," Noll told him. "Do you have similar animals on Earth?"
"Yes. We call them horses but ours aren't nearly this big."
"Where did they come from?" Michaela asked as she looked over at Noll. "Our people have been over here a lot and none of them have reported seeing them before."
"The equitos are travellers by nature," Kaevan explained. "They travel from place to place on a planet, mostly to conserve food. Since it is blooming season for the pomum in this part of the planet, they have came here to eat."
Nodding, Michaela fed the equito another pomum. She then blushed a little and looked at the rest of them. "I shouldn't be feeding her so much, huh?" she sheepishly asked.