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Not far into the orchard, Gallus had led his pack of friends down to a new activity they were all still trying to understand his passion for. An odd one that had him shimmied up high in an apple tree.

“Soooo,” Silverstream questioned aloud, holding up an apple as she fluttered in place. “How many of these are we collecting?”

All around the nearby trees, the other remaining young six carried their baskets at different levels of fullness with apples, minus Yona, carrying Flurry Heart swirling her plushie around and giggling. Meanwhile, as Gallus lazily explained, he continued to drop down apples for the others to catch.

“Applejack said all the ripe apples in this portion of the orchard are okay to pick. They've been falling behind on orders since Big Mac is still laid up in bed, and the house needs to finish being repaired. Lumberman is busy with that, and Applejack is helping him since the bat ponies have a hard time guarding him during the day. Granny Smith is too busy taking over the market side of things in town, and she doesn’t trust that new unicorn mare, Sugar Belle, so she goes where Granny goes. The rest of the Apple family is caught up in their own farming problems to come out to help, so we should harvest as many as we can.”

Sandbar placed his basket down and slowly sat in the shade, only to roll over to his side.

“Hey, Gallus. Not that I'm against helping anypony, especially Applejack, and Mister Lumberman, but my hip isn't ready for this. Is there anything else I can do?”

All of them had their limitations, so Gallus poked his head out from the branches to take a better look at their situation.

“Don’t worry, bud. No need to stay on your hooves more than you can stand… Umm… Well, since you know more about apples than the others, how about you sort the apples I drop down in their baskets to the larger barrels?”

Knowing the others had issues to work around and different strengths to utilize, Gallus looked around to the others to help guide them.

“Silverstream, some of these branches might not support my weight, but since you can still fly and it's better for you to stay off your hooves, how about you fly up and pick the apples I can't get? And Yona… You make sure Flurry doesn't try to go chasing the chickens again.”

Since Silverstream was already up in the area she needed to be in, Yona trotted up closer into view, carrying Flurry atop her back, and gave a proud nod.

“Em-hmm.”

On top of Yona’s back, Flurry brought her plushie up to her chest and squeezed it tightly like it were another unlucky fowl.

“Bawk-bawk!”

I found out that For some reason yaks are another race of creatures that Ai struggles to create properly in the MLP style. The horns and large mound on Yona's back had to be added in, along with the long ponytails of her hair because you can't always get what you ask for with these generators.

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