"So this here is our newest cellar where we store some of the produce during the winter.” Applejack said pointing at a large hatch on the ground, it hadn’t taken too long to finish the meal but she was glad that rainbow dash had decided to change her position until they walked outside.
“Mhm.” Hawke nodded as they continued their path taking a mental note of where everything was located.
“And over here is the barn you fell through.” She continued after a bit of walking, putting a hoof on the heavy double doors with a smile.
“Luckily it was only the one we use to store wheat in and not the newer one where we store the carts and tools.”
“Guess I was quite lucky then.” He nodded as he walked over to the great doors, continuing as he saw her begun to open it, lowering a large wooden bar and putting it down against the wall.
“Do you need help?”
“Nah ahm fine, the doors just old and ya should not strain yerself.” She smiled back as she pushed it open with a low screech, grunting a bit as she gave it a hard push, sighing as she put a small piece of wood to hold it open before turning around and pointing into the barn.
“An there’s yer chair.”
“Well it seems to be only scrap now.” Hawke said as he saw what she pointed at, walking over to the throne, rounding it seeing several loose and missing parts even the top dish part seemed to have been warped to oblivion, putting a hoof on it pushing a loose plate a bit before continuing.
“It does not seem to be salvageable.”
“Ah dunno maybe Twilight could help repair it, she’s usually kinda good with weird stuff.” Applejack shrugged patting the throne herself, fiddling a bit with some loose wiring holding up the burnt off stump to her eye.
“An maybe not too much things are missing?”
“Maybe… it is okay for you to store it for now?” He asked as he looked around the barn seeing it a bit crowded with stacks of hay and old garden tools, which made him wonder even more why would ponies use tools made for human hands and not make them more after hooves.
“Of course don’t worry bout it a thing.” She smiled at him, glancing up at the hole in the roof.
“Ya any good with hammer and nails?”
“Hmm can’t say I am, but if needed I could give it a try.” He answered looking up at the hole, wondering again how do ponies even use tools made for hands, tapping his chin a bit as his thoughts wandered over to how he would even hold a nail without fingers.
“So ya said earlier ya were some sort of noble right.” She asked stepping up beside him to look up at the hole too.
“Yes I belonged to one of the bigger noble houses, my father had ruled the family for almost 47 years.” He answered turning his head back down and giving the throne a last look before he started to walk towards the door.
“If ya don’t mind me asking what did ya do as a noble?” She asked as she followed him out, both closing the door behind them, getting a questioning look from Hawke as he handed over the large beam keeping the door shut.
“Ah mean ya don’t look like the regular fancy type more like some practical one.”
“To be honest I never enjoyed ballrooms and fine wine, when I could I usually visited the farms with my sister.” He nodded giving a small bow with his head as he motioned with a hoof for their walk to continue.
“Though father did get angry when I brought her outside the mansion.”
“Oh so ya were a bit of a rebel in yer youth eh?”
“Atleast until I defied my father when I turned eighteen and joined the army.” He said, closing his eyes for a moment cursing himself for letting it slip,
“The army? Well, that explains those odd thingamajigs ya got on ya.” She said raising an eyebrow at him.
“Yes, anyway, these are the apple trees?” He sighed, trying to change back the topics to the work at hand, stopping as he saw the vast amount of apple trees.
“I expected a lot, but these are covering several acres.”
“Well, ah don’t wanna brag, but it’s about three and a half acres of the finest apple trees in whole Equestria.” She smiled proudly as they took in the sight, motioning a hoof at the trees.
“So how do we get them down?” He asked, taking a few steps forward, looking around at the trees for a moment before turning his head back towards her.
“Ladders?”
“Or we do it the easy way.” She grinned as she walked over to the closest one turning from it, leaning forward a bit and giving the tree a hard double kick causing a loud thud to echo over the acres, causing several apples to fall down, smiling as she held out her hoof and snatching it out of the air as it fell and tossing it towards Hawke.
“Here, take a bite.”
“Thanks.” He said as he fumbled with it with his hooves, trying to grasp it, rubbing it against his chest before taking a bite out of it.
“Sweet.”
“Of course it’s sweet since it’s Sweet Apple Acres.” She said winking at him, happy to see the newcomer happily chew down the whole apple before continuing.
“Well, this is pretty much the whole thing, only the pigs and the cows are left now if ya wanna see em too.”
“Well, why not, could be good to know my way around the whole area.” He nodded as they began to head back.