Once everyspecies was aboard, things turned into a mad rush to ensure things were secured. However, with the zebras and ponies unable to speak each other’s language, they had to rely on nonverbal cues and rudimentary gestures to maintain communication across the species divide, which was of limited effectiveness and slowed things further. In spite of that, they continued to work relatively fast, and I could already tell that the ponies held the edge in procedural efficiency. I found myself studying their motions as they worked, intent on learning more about their strange ways. This proved easy, since neither side bothered us much, outside of the odd request to move over somewhere.