England caught the muttered words and shrugged. "I think you misunderstand me. It isn't that they don't talk, it's that they cannot talk. Horses and ponies are incapable of speech. They always have been." She probably wasn't listening. Children these days. Perhaps he was just getting old. What a horrible thought.

He snorted softly at her apparently simplistic view of Earth. "Earth, it's a planet called Earth, divided into many many countries, all inhabited by humans. I'm from a country called England. As for what I was... that's rather more difficult. Do you have countries where you are from?"