Horses
Mules
Both words in one sentence
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In places where high technology is rare, it makes more sense to use horses or mules - they don't require any high tech equipment to keep running.
Source: Standard Sci-Fi Army -
She is so much into this trope that the first thing Beder notices on entering her kingdom is the abnormally large number of donkeys, mules and horses on the streets, who, he later learns, were all her former human lovers whom she had transformed into animals after she tired of them.
Source: Baleful Polymorph -
Queen Lab in "Julnar the Sea-Born and Her Son King Badr Basim of Persia" is an example of the latter type of sorceress: the first thing King Badr notices on entering her kingdom is the abnormally large number of donkeys, mules and horses on the streets.
Source: Literature / Arabian Nights
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