April stood in her thinking about her choices... or rather lack of them, that caused her to end as a mare instead of a stallion. She wanted to be a horse, as Adam didn't think that not filling the whole form would lead to being changed into a mare. Well, she wanted to be surprised, but this? Well, she could be born a female after all, anyway. Does it matter? At least he won't have to worry about... that. She just needs to stay away from stallions when... it will come. They assured that the stables are taking care of mares in heat, so they don't get pregnant if owners don't want them. In the worst case, she'll need to endure that phase being kept with other mares and geldings. She wonders if she'll meet other people who changed into horses as well.
The next 3 days were about training, learning about horses. After a few hours in her stall, she finally felt well. April finally accepted being mare and figured out how to eat and drink. Soon a woman opened the stalls and released all equines, including zebra, leading them to a 'lecture room', without chairs, but with a place for animals to stand.
"Okay boys and girls, as you noticed, all of you are equines. You can learn together the same things because you aren't much different from each other" Megan starts. "My name is Megan and I'll be your teacher. I have quite... broad experience about being like you" she explains, shortly describing her experiences: she was mare for three years, giving birth to two foals. She also was a stallion for half a year and even became a champion and... stud! After all, she was quite experienced with horses. She also tried being a donkey but didn't like that.
"Zebra here might be a bit unique, I must say I have no practice with them personally, it's not a common choice here since people are much more suspicious about exotic animals" continues, describing a bit her situation. After a crash, she was paralyzed. Decided to help an endangered species by becoming a mare for them, maybe it's a better fate than staying in bed for the rest of your life?
Megan also told that she has no idea who we were earlier and shouldn't know. It didn't matter now, either for her or them. Maybe it's better? The stallion was called Adam, coincidence? Probably. But He was much larger than April, she shivers seeing his posture and his... She tries to not think about it.
Megan started her lecture with some history and basic differences between them, mostly horses and donkeys. Zebra will have her own private lessons, as her fate will be much different from the rest. Told about what they should eat, how to recognize others...
In an over 3 hour lecture, they knew the most basic things about being equines, enough to survive as one. They watch videos of horses running in different styles, eating, drinking. They already figured that out, but now had a better view of 'professionals' doing it.
"Okay, that's all for the first part, rest for a while and then we'll talk about social interactions." the teacher says turning off the projector and turning on the light. Soon all of them were lead out to the pasture. Some of them, including April had to be pushed outside, as they weren't still so self-confident about going outside 'like that'.