Tree That Is Secretly A Dragon And A Deer

The bird is not so dumb as to trust the tree not to grab it when the tree was not here yesterday. It has a longer memory than that, Lapis! You should have replaced an actual tree for this trick. That might have worked better.

The tree might sense some unusual senses lapping over it, trying to read the tree's biological makeup- not at a cellular level, just its macroscopic anatomy, and an attempt to find mystic patterns left by a brain. It doesn't expect to find the latter, however; I don't believe Lapis has ever generated any such thing, being too real to have telepathy work by connecting to something more mystic than just her physical brain.