At dawn on the fiesta field, five hundred balloons lift into an apricot sky over the Rio Grande. Hollis Grant is packing up Marigold when Poppy Lindqvist's burner sputters out twenty feet above the grass. Crews don't catch a rival's line at the fiesta, but Hollis is already sprinting. He grabs her crimson drop line and walks her basket down onto the dew.
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