P erci heard the screaming only seconds after she got that feeling—the one that told her Pip was in trouble. That Pip needed her. She turned off the shower and grabbed her pajamas—she’d needed a shower and a good cry—and threw them on .
Pip needed her .
And Perci could already smell the smoke .
She ran out the back door, knowing her sister and Matt would be near the horses and Phoebe’s goats if there was something wrong .
Perci ran around the corner of the larger barn toward the small one at the back where the smoke billowed .
Wind Lover was screaming, the fire terrifying the little buckskin and her foal .
But it was the sight of her sister running toward the open barn door and practically diving into the flames that had the same terror freezing Perci to her soul .
“Pip !”
Perci kept running, past the men fighting in her side yard. She recognized them both, but she didn’t stop .
Perci headed toward the small barn right after her sister .