Then you certainly haven't ever heard of a Cleg. Flying horses who were intelligent and could speak back to you- they'd purposely either try to bite your hand off or wait until you mounted them and then took off high into the sky and buck you right off. I'd heard many natives died trying to tame them because they'd all broken their necks.

[Morbid Celtic mythology come to life at its finest!]

10,000 years? [That's a bit of a groan.] And here I thought being behind by over 200 years was bad enough. I really should be used to the differences in years by now.