Painted Moose
Izel nodded enthusiastically. "Mhm! Mhm! Janarim's are good for hunting. So are snaptrotters. And they can catch fish!" That way the twisty man could have smoked fish when he wanted! "Plus, both of them are good at carrying people and bags of things." His friend had a Janarim companion and his cousin had recently gotten a snaptrotter mount so he knew these things of course. "What kind of beasts are there where you're from? Where are you from?"
Jensen didn't appear spooked by the movement of the hand, though he did take another step close so he could sniff a bit more at Selim. He seemed to have an ear trained on Izel the entire time too, so when the boy got excited the beast turned his head to look but quickly decided it was no threat to react to.