As Adi paid attention to his surroundings now, all trace of sleep gone from his eyes, he was sure he heard the clip- clop of hooves. He tilted his head as he kept listening but did not disregard [color= yellow]Polly[/color]'s statement. "Not in a million years,'' he said with a cheerful grin. All things creatures was something he was NOT going to miss.
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Aha! There was the centaur Professor!

Orion was bright? Er, if the Professor said so. But in reference to his kind, Adi already knew centaurs were immensely proud and required no kind of care from humans. And he already did respect them.

"Centaurs have human intelligence.'' Yes, his hand was up.