1. The author is describing Kim's face as being a mixture of terror and exhilaration because being a "master" implies that you know what you're doing, that you know something can go wrong, but still loving every minute of it. I think that the narrator admired Kim because Kim could do something she couldn't. She could jump over a fence with her horse, the one thing that the narrator cannot do. She also learns that Kim did not like her mother that much either, and the narrator has someone to relate with. Kim gives the narrator the confidence to not sit back in the shadow of her mother, and go out and do what she loves, riding horses.
2. The "way forward" means that the narrator does not have to sit back in the shadow of her mother, and that she now has the confidence to live her own life; not caring what other people think of her.
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