Hmm with humans alone it’s 2 who are outright stated/strongly implied allocishet, or 5 total if we assume it as default if unspecified. Including talking animals brings us to 8 total, so we’ll call it $18 even though I’m probably calculating that wrong.

Do talking animals count or only humans?

What I always tell beginners: if you can knit and purl, everything beyond that, no matter how complicated it looks, is basically a variation of one or the other.