The very first thing that stuck out to me was their colours. So vibrant and diverse in palette, almost as if reflecting the vibrancy of their land itself, and with not a single stripe or other coat pattern to speak of. Their physical shapes were extremely zebra-like, though rather small: the size of an average mountain zebra, in fact, though there were plenty of outliers. Their manes and tails were sometimes patterned, and sometimes not, but were every bit as colourful as their coats. There were marks on their flanks, but not the abstract and meaningless yet unique marks that me and my people are all born with. No, these were firmly defined, very explicit pictures of objects and concepts, some recognizable and some not, appearing almost as if they were dyed or tattooed into place.