Stop the bear, screamed her head. The others needed time. How? She had the rope, didn’t she? She flew above the trees, uncoiled a long length of it, and wrapped parts around each of her front hooves, making a nice, long loop almost six feet across. She plunged beneath the treetops again. The second the bear’s head passed into the loop, she flew to one side. The bear roared and slipped as its head was yanked sideways and the loop constricted like a noose; it fell, its feet sliding out from under it.