singing all the chants that they have ever heard

A Zephyr Mio may have been, but it was still perfectly ridiculous, the way her ears and eyes and everything perked all the way up when she so much as whiffed (whether with those same furry ears or any other sense) her favorite fellow defender (and quite tanky, he was) coming closer.

"Lanz!!!"

That was the first step in the sequence. Second was abandoning whatever she was currently holding, whether that was a soup ladle, Noah's hair, or Sena's hands, and bounding over to match pace and nuzzle into his chest.

Eventually, he approached her with arms at-ready to catch.