He saw the abject refusal in Hana’s face and squashed it. “Look, you’ll be fine. Just let the horse do the work. They bum slide all the time, just balance and let him go. I’ll go first.”
With that, he disappeared, plunging over the edge to the bottom. The drop looked sheer and an avalanche of earth followed him, catching in Sacha’s tail and covering her thighs with orange clay. Hana held her breath. Sacha used her front feet to balance, dropping her rear in a sitting position and using her back legs as a rudder. As soon as her front feet hit solid ground, she bounced upright. It took seconds. Hana’s stomach lurched into her mouth as she watched Logan and the mare pick their way up the other side, leaping and bouncing as they scrabbled through loose earth. The upward climb appeared more te
