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It
was
an
interminable
chase
.
Round
and
round
and
back
and
forth
for
long
stretches
through
the
forest
they
dashed
.
There
was
great
excitement
among
the
other
Folk
.
They
set
up
a
wild
chattering
,
that
was
loudest
when
Red
-
Eye
was
at
a
distance
,
and
that
hushed
when
the
chase
led
him
near
.
They
were
impotent
onlookers
.
The
females
screeched
and
gibbered
,
and
the
males
beat
their
chests
in
helpless
rage
.
Big
Face
was
especially
angry
,
and
though
he
hushed
his
racket
when
Red
-
Eye
drew
near
,
he
did
not
hush
it
to
the
extent
the
others
did
.
As
for
me
,
I
played
no
brave
part
.
I
know
I
was
anything
but
a
hero
.
Besides
,
of
what
use
would
it
have
been
for
me
to
encounter
Red
-
Eye
?
He
was
the
mighty
monster
,
the
abysmal
brute
,
and
there
was
no
hope
for
me
in
a
conflict
of
strength
.
He
would
have
killed
me
,
and
the
situation
would
have
remained
unchanged
.
He
would
have
caught
the
Swift
One
before
she
could
have
gained
the
cave
.
As
it
was
,
I
could
only
look
on
in
helpless
fury
,
and
dodge
out
of
the
way
and
cease
my
raging
when
he
came
too
near
.
The
hours
passed
.
It
was
late
afternoon
.
And
still
the
chase
went
on
.
Red
-
Eye
was
bent
upon
exhausting
the
Swift
One
.
He
deliberately
ran
her
down
.
After
a
long
time
she
began
to
tire
and
could
no
longer
maintain
her
headlong
flight
.
Then
it
was
that
she
began
going
far
out
on
the
thinnest
branches
,
where
he
could
not
follow
.
Thus
she
might
have
got
a
breathing
spell
,
but
Red
-
Eye
was
fiendish
.
Unable
to
follow
her
,
he
dislodged
her
by
shaking
her
off
.
With
all
his
strength
and
weight
,
he
would
shake
the
branch
back
and
forth
until
he
snapped
her
off
as
one
would
snap
a
fly
from
a
whip
-
lash
.
The
first
time
,
she
saved
herself
by
falling
into
branches
lower
down
.
Another
time
,
though
they
did
not
save
her
from
the
ground
,
they
broke
her
fall
.
Still
another
time
,
so
fiercely
did
he
snap
her
from
the
branch
,
she
was
flung
clear
across
a
gap
into
another
tree
.
It
was
remarkable
,
the
way
she
gripped
and
saved
herself
.
Only
when
driven
to
it
did
she
seek
the
temporary
safety
of
the
thin
branches
.
But
she
was
so
tired
that
she
could
not
otherwise
avoid
him
,
and
time
after
time
she
was
compelled
to
take
to
the
thin
branches
.
Still
the
chase
went
on
,
and
still
the
Folk
screeched
,
beat
their
chests
,
and
gnashed
their
teeth
.
Then
came
the
end
.
It
was
almost
twilight
.
Trembling
,
panting
,
struggling
for
breath
,
the
Swift
One
clung
pitiably
to
a
high
thin
branch
.
It
was
thirty
feet
to
the
ground
,
and
nothing
intervened
.
Red
-
Eye
swung
back
and
forth
on
the
branch
farther
down
.
It
became
a
pendulum
,
swinging
wider
and
wider
with
every
lunge
of
his
weight
.
Then
he
reversed
suddenly
,
just
before
the
downward
swing
was
completed
.
Her
grips
were
torn
loose
,
and
,
screaming
,
she
was
hurled
toward
the
ground
.
But
she
righted
herself
in
mid
-
air
and
descended
feet
first
.
Ordinarily
,
from
such
a
height
,
the
spring
in
her
legs
would
have
eased
the
shock
of
impact
with
the
ground
.
But
she
was
exhausted
.
She
could
not
exercise
this
spring
.
Her
legs
gave
under
her
,
having
only
partly
met
the
shock
,
and
she
crashed
on
over
on
her
side
.
This
,
as
it
turned
out
,
did
not
injure
her
,
but
it
did
knock
the
breath
from
her
lungs
.
She
lay
helpless
and
struggling
for
air
.
Red
-
Eye
rushed
upon
her
and
seized
her
.
With
his
gnarly
fingers
twisted
into
the
hair
of
her
head
,
he
stood
up
and
roared
in
triumph
and
defiance
at
the
awed
Folk
that
watched
from
the
trees
.
Then
it
was
that
I
went
mad
.
Caution
was
thrown
to
the
winds
;
forgotten
was
the
will
to
live
of
my
flesh
.
Even
as
Red
-
Eye
roared
,
from
behind
I
dashed
upon
him
.
So
unexpected
was
my
charge
that
I
knocked
him
off
his
feet
.
I
twined
my
arms
and
legs
around
him
and
strove
to
hold
him
down
.
This
would
have
been
impossible
to
accomplish
had
he
not
held
tightly
with
one
hand
to
the
Swift
One
’
s
hair
.
Encouraged
by
my
conduct
,
Big
-
Face
became
a
sudden
ally
.
He
charged
in
,
sank
his
teeth
in
Red
-
Eye
’
s
arm
,
and
ripped
and
tore
at
his
face
.
This
was
the
time
for
the
rest
of
the
Folk
to
have
joined
in
.
It
was
the
chance
to
do
for
Red
-
Eye
for
all
time
.
But
they
remained
afraid
in
the
trees
.
