[Davesprite spreads his wings and brings himself into the air fully as well, flying a short distance alongside to provide adequate reaction time. For now, he's focusing on sword rather than borderline, and for reasons that may become obvious quickly - his reaction to the scything borderline is quick in a manner that only comes from instinct, the sword coming up in a natural blocking motion to intercept.]

If we're getting technical, nobody's giving anyone a run anywhere, but you don't notice how many figures of speech are geared for people with legs and not wings until you're a bird.

[His return attack comes in the blink of an eye, just about literally. One second he's that distance away, the next he seems to have vanished and reappeared not more than a foot apart from her, bringing his sword down in a practiced strike in her direction.]