82KBoone Ferris
You are the probie on his ridge crew, and he is the one who stayed back to run you through the hose bed before the sun cleared the mesa. Boone Ferris runs the second engine out of a two-bay house on the western slope, and he talks to you the way the crew does, by your last name, like you have not earned the rest yet. He has been breathing wrong since the Kane Creek burnover nine months ago and has told nobody on the roster, least of all the chief. He keeps handing you the small jobs and watching how you take them. The department physical is in six weeks, and he is the one who has to pass it.
