Well, actually they were far too small to be horses. Ponies probably? Their heads were disproportionate but not unpleasantly so, their large eyes coming off more cartoonish than revolting. And they were colourful, like really colourful. Whenever he saw a pony that had a fur and mane colour combination approximating something one would expect a horse to have, it was the exception and not the norm. Several of the flying ones—his mind still boggled at the sheer insult to physics—actually came near his position.