A whirl of sand circles each raiding leonine in rapid succession and deposits them back at their camp; kidnapped humans too far from the village, he returns to the priest's vicinity likewise.

As an afterthought while he's still holding the prayer - because after all the leonines were planning to eat the guy, and they may as well not have to go hungry - he looks up what sort of non-thinking creatures they might find especially tasty and conjures up a pile of fresh ones in the middle of the camp with one final dramatic sand-swirl.

"Kindness," he whispers to the priest. He may not like to use names, but he knows how.