Wildfire by Sable Hamilton

Author:Sable Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 9781434297914;9781434297952;9781496502070;fiction;Stone Arch Books;Stardust Stables;sports & recreation--equestrian;animals--horses;performing arts--general;social issues--adolescence
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2015-01-19T21:36:57+00:00

Meanwhile, as Rex and Alisa walked up the mountain, Alisa got familiar with the details of her next stunt.

“This is the reason Mr. Peterson hired you,” Rex reminded her. “He liked what he saw in the round pen at Stardust Stables — you expertly riding your horse through the flaming arches. It was very impressive. But now you have to really prove yourself. Now you have to deal with the real thing.”

“So you’re really going to set the forest on fire?” Alisa asked.

“That’s how it’ll look,” he explained. “But we’re at nine thousand feet and you see up there, above the tree line?”

Alisa nodded. Ahead of them the aspens thinned out until eventually there was bare rock.

“That’s where we’re filming, with the wind coming up the mountain from the southwest, fanning the flames toward the bare peak. We’ll set up a fake screen of burning trees and film you and your horse galloping through the flames.”

“Cool.” Alisa didn’t say much — she was concentrating hard and taking in every aspect of her surroundings.

“Here’s the back story for this part of the plot: the area has had no rainfall all summer, and the U.S. Forest Service has set up a red alert. So our resident psycho decides to set a controlled fire on the outskirts of town, then act the hero by saving Hannah’s character from the flames. Only, the wind changes direction and he sets the whole forest on fire.”

“So Hannah’s character grabs her horse and tries to escape?” Alisa guessed.

“Right. The helicopters are already on the scene, dousing the flames from above. A team of firefighters ropes in to contain the fire. It’s high-octane action — flames, water, guys dropping from choppers on ropes, and just you and your horse racing to outrun the inferno.”

“Expensive,” Alisa murmured. All those helicopters and stuntmen dropping from the sky, all those gallons of water and hissing flames and churning chopper blades.

“Very.” Rex stopped and stood looking closely at Alisa, thumbs hitched into his belt. “Your part of the filming’s going pretty well so far. Let’s hope today goes smoothly, too, since we really need to do this in one take.”

“Diabolo and I will do our best,” she promised. She’d already staked out the territory and seen exactly how hard the riding would be. But she felt confident that it was nothing she and Diabolo couldn’t handle.

The head wrangler gave a small, satisfied nod. “So this is where we position the screen of burning trees,” he explained, walking on. “From this pillar-shaped boulder on your left to the clump of round rocks to the right, about ninety feet away. Got it?”

Alisa nodded and stored the information.

“And that’s where you race your horse up the mountain, following the trail toward the bare ridge with sheer cliffs to either side. We’ll have cameras filming from every angle. Your job is to ignore the choppers and the firefighters. Just ride like crazy through the smoke to safety.”

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