Jeeves was happy enough to defer to Lin on this as she seemed to be doing the most practical thing. He supposed his pretend back condition could be explained away to Pinkie as relenting in the heat of the moment. So, while Descartes plucked apples one-by-one with toothy down at the other end of the orchard, Jeeves began applebucking.

He was a large stallion, but it still took him a few tries to knock all of the apples down off the first tree. This was completely unfamiliar - and frankly embarrassing - action and activity for him. The next tree went faster, and Jeeves used the moment between cantering from tree-to-tree to calculate how long this might take. Lin's barrier would probably not last the entire duration.