…but I realize that this pup has made two mistakes. First, he has left his companion where I can get at him still, and two, he has forgotten that I am one with the land here.

I consider for a heartbeat or two, and I go into the ground. I swim forward through the area I have to traverse, and when I have crossed the boundary of the shield, I erupt inside it. With the rest of them.

I laugh evilly. Now they have nowhere to run to.