~Spruce's eyes lit up. "And I know just the pullet for the job," he murmured, then lifted his voice into a commanding cackle. "Lighting! Hurry- get over here!"~"Lead him back to Vaast territory! The intruder is there! The fox will go after him!", explained Zeus. " Genius!", clucked Frostclaw.
~Lightning looked from where she was fastidiously foraging, and sped over to her father, eyeing the fox in an utterly shocked stupor. "Uhhhh... Dad?" She neatly dodged another flurry of snapping jaws and darted a good hundred hen-lengths clear of it. "What's that??"~
~Spruce ignored her rhetorical question and pinned her with a glare. "Lightning, you're possibly the fastest bird in the flock- can you run like never before and lead this thing back to Vaast?"~
~Lightning's jaw could've dropped off of her face and rolled to Vaast territory itself. Composing herself, she straightened and dodged another leap from the red canine. "Will do, Father."~