James reads the list, and contributes her own findings from memory.
She favours a pair of unicorn siblings, Moonlight and Starlight, for the task of carrying Acorn, because they volunteered as a pair and will be able to trade off the carrying and therefore make better time overall; and out of the slightly smaller pool of creatures who volunteered to help with plowing, she chooses a centaur who claimed to represent his mother and father and three older sisters in addition to himself, because as a group they'll coordinate easily and as centaurs they will be able to plow fields and keep up with unicorns if the unicorns keep to a pattern of ferrying Acorn around to dwellings in the immediate vicinity whenever the centaurs are busy plowing something.
Moonlight and Starlight also mentioned that they are both excellent swimmers, which will be helpful in case of spring floods and washed-out bridges, and the eldest centaur sister is reported to be an amateur cartographer with a collection of reasonably up-to-date maps that all together cover most of the country. Her brother has reported that he expects her to be pleased about the chance to revise and expand her collection with the return of the seasons.
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Date: 2014-06-26 12:30 am (UTC)She favours a pair of unicorn siblings, Moonlight and Starlight, for the task of carrying Acorn, because they volunteered as a pair and will be able to trade off the carrying and therefore make better time overall; and out of the slightly smaller pool of creatures who volunteered to help with plowing, she chooses a centaur who claimed to represent his mother and father and three older sisters in addition to himself, because as a group they'll coordinate easily and as centaurs they will be able to plow fields and keep up with unicorns if the unicorns keep to a pattern of ferrying Acorn around to dwellings in the immediate vicinity whenever the centaurs are busy plowing something.
Moonlight and Starlight also mentioned that they are both excellent swimmers, which will be helpful in case of spring floods and washed-out bridges, and the eldest centaur sister is reported to be an amateur cartographer with a collection of reasonably up-to-date maps that all together cover most of the country. Her brother has reported that he expects her to be pleased about the chance to revise and expand her collection with the return of the seasons.