Gyrfalcon's Keep let me share the reasons for your lecture for a change --

Her lie came across just as she liked, although the comeback was painful. She was actually very pretty for fox standards, and to insult her appearance was deep. She needed to find Caiaphas's weak spot and win this word war without recycling comebacks. Unfortunately she was running out of ideas. She couldn't think of good comebacks for that on the spot. "No, they died slowly. For you they just burned up on the spot. I mean, who knew a coyote and a wolf mixed together could be so hideous?" She cackled, her eyes narrowing to little slits.