All summer, with Orange County cycling through murderous heat and once-in-a-century drought, she’d prepared for brush fires like a general perfecting frontline strategy. Even her contingency plans had backups. But while she was busy figuring out how to rescue her animals, the real threat in her life had built. Silently.
I deliberately worked a drought into the background for tension. When you live in the forest, as we do (in Orange County, N.C.) the fear of fire can be overwhelming.
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