JON
Learning to ride a horse four days after blowing up Demon Anya was a painful thrill for Jon, but he wouldn’t have missed it for the world. He had always wanted to try it and was pleased to find out he had a natural gift with horses. Josh Leopold had let him ride Attitude, a roan gelding with a need to run. Travis rode Macy, a calmer black filly that had almost seemed to smile as soon as the younger boy got in the saddle. Jon made himself learn everything he could about riding in the two hours they spent roaming the expansive Leopold property, which included an oversized red-brick mansion with tall columns across the front porch and about two thousand acres of land. There weren’t any other homes in Josh’s neighborhood; their property was the neighborhood.
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