It's never the same

She sat up straight as he changed the subject, saying they could talk about those kinds of defenses later. Well, he warned her with his harsher tone, but regardless she straightened up and brought her wandering focus back to the task he was setting her up for.

He pointedly remarked on their first meeting, and she swiveled her ears back and forth with some shame. Ignita was going to learn how to defend herself, she wasn't sure if she could do this very well.

He told her set her paws evenly to center her balance. Okay, one paw then the other, evenly... To him, her paws would have looked spread out a little far on both sides. Bending her knees, it was a little difficult with her healing fracture but she did it! She looked like she was squatting.

"Like this?" She set her face into her best grimace, a comical rendition of scrunching your nose just before a sneeze.
"Ignita"