Fire Maiden (2008)
““No big deal, you guys,” Megan said, and when both younger girls stayed silent, she added jokingly, “Listen to your big sister. Obviously, it was the wind.”
Darby felt the same little bounce of pleasure she had when Megan proposed sisterhood before, but she just nodded.
About half of the blossoms blew away as the girls set up the horses’ highline.
They tied each end of a long rope to the ohia trees.
It looked like a clothesline, Darby thought.
They watered and hand-grazed the horses, then put neck ropes on them and tied each one individually to the long rope, making sure the horses were spaced apart and didn’t have enough slack to get a leg over the rope.
Hands on her hips, Megan surveyed their work.
“That should hold them, unless all four work together to pull down the trees,” she said.
“Or a herd of wild horses charges through,” Darby said.
“I’ve seen tracks up here, but no horses,” Megan said. “And since no one around here shoes their horses, the tracks could have been from domestic ones.”
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