Ally spent the next several days trying to get the farm back in order, at the same time as dealing with animals she couldn’t let loose, not until the area around the meadow had been checked and cleared for hot spots. From what one of the fire crew, not James, had said, in places where the underbrush had been thick or a lot of debris had fallen, it could stay hot for days… Keeping the animals penned was a pain in the butt, but it was better than having one, or more, hurt because she hadn’t waited.
She had bright spots over the last few days, and as she thought back over them, she realized the best parts where when she got a message from James. There weren’t many, and most of them told her he was headed out to work or headed to get some rest. Still, those few words from him made her smile f
