Yet she loved it all and wanted to live near it, so that when the need pressed her she could ride out into the great open stretches and see the dark monuments grow nearer and nearer, till she was under them, in the silent and colored shadows.
Slone returned presently with Wildfire.

The stallion shone like a flame in the sunlight.

His fear and hatred of Slone showed in the way he obeyed.

Slone had mastered him, and must always keep the upper hand of him.

It had from the first been a fight between man and beast, and Lucy believed it would always be so.
But Wildfire was a different horse when he saw Lucy.