It’s… how would I say…
Very involving, for as short as it is.
(Chapter-wise)
I’m pleased that foals grow so fast, otherwise it’d be super long and annoying like an actual child or pet - years of repetition for a slow payoff.
I think maybe it’s giving them too much credit to be so thoughtful? And not be able to vocalize it?
But second guessing myself, here… a genetically engineered pet would also be highly… instinctually… Predisposed to all these feelings and drives and yet not be able to say it.
An odd place for existential thoughts, and yet… absolutely appropriate in a creature whose existence is preordained.