[Ah. If he was better with horses, the implication is that he could probably take Nyx and she'd take Freya. He makes a note to do some research on them. Or something. A smarter approach would likely be to spending some more quality time with them, but he already knows he's not keen on doing so without someone else's company. Preferably someone like Tifa who knows more about horses than he does.

She gestures to the gate and he nods.]

Oh, yeah. Sure thing.

[Doesn't take him more than a few moments to do precisely that. Like he's been opening gates all his life and is, in fact, a grandiose gate opener. (He's not, but he can pretend.) And as he's opening the way, he gestures with a hand.]

Are we gonna need anything else, you think? I rode a boar once back home, but this is probably nothing like that.

[Also, that boar was a significant pain in the butt.]