Also, she was an unerring judge of distance, and she had an instinct for knowing the strength of twigs, branches, and rotten limbs.
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.