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Demi panted lightly and blinked up at her mentor's apologetic face. "Mir-sensei, it's not all your fault..." She mewed lightly, grinning the the Singapura, "I pushed myself too far, that's all." The young girl's chest still heaved, and her legs felt hot and useless, her arms like weight to either side of her. Demi wasn't moving off the roof anytime soon. "I guess maybe we should have taken it easy today after all... I don't think I can do much more today." Both ears fell back in defeat at her admittance, and Demi sighed to herself, relaxing against the rooftop. "Sorry, Mir-sensei."

Padding into the square, Demi approached the fountain with confidence that she had lost weeks ago. Bronze-colored eyes trained on her mentor as her body moved rhythmically through the various moves and exercises she had been teaching the Bobtail lately. Demi's tail gave a little wag and she approached the Singapura with a wide smile, "Morning, Mir-sensei!" Since starting her training with the older female, Demi's body had begun to change, her overall form was much smoother, and she had developed lithe muscles in her legs and arms as well as endurance. Without saying much else, the dappled bobtail sunk into a few stretches of her own, happily mirroring Mirelle.

Going through the warm-up routine with a giddy enjoyment, Demi could feel herself calming internally. Just as she was nearly finished with her stretches, her ears gave a flick and bronze-colored eyes snapped over to her mentor, her body moving instinctively to avoid the blow. Amusement danced in the bobtail's eyes as she grinned to the older cat. "Ah, is that how it's going to be this morning?" She mewed with a playful wag of her stubby tail, "That's fine, give me your best today, Mir-sensei!" With that, Demi took off, beginning their routine run and keeping her senses open for her surroundings. She was prepared to use everything Mirelle had taught to her over the weeks. The wind brushed her fur as she jogged at a light pace, and the girl nimbly dodged through the legs of several humans as the square woke up. Their route veered off into the park, in which Demi traded humans for trees and bushes as obstacles. Uneven terrain was still the bobtail's most difficult hurdle. Being tail-less made keeping one's balance when the level of the ground was constantly changing underpaw quite difficult. Still, Demi had been progressively getting better with this as she trained, and handled the ground decently well now. However, this was where she had to be most wary of her mentor's attacks, so the dappled cat breathed carefully and kept her senses open.

As she ran, Demi was aware that her mentor was nearby constantly. She would catch a whiff of the Singapura's scent as she wound around the trees or catch the sound of leaves rustling nearby. She had determined some time ago that the older cat was in the trees, and so she was ready for an aerial attack. What the young bobtail wasn't prepared for was a projectile attack, and she barely caught the whistling sound of the stone as it sailed through the air in time to dodge it. Thrown off her rhythm for a moment, the small girl quickly locked her eyes on the stone as it flew past her cheek and pelted the dirt path to her left. With a small nod to herself, the girl pushed forward with renewed vigor, now chasing after her mentor from the ground. She would be ready for the next attack for sure. As she picked up pace again, Demi calmed herself and opened her senses even more to her surroundings. It was clear that dodging the attacks wouldn't be sufficient. She'd have to locate the older female and launch an attack of her own.

Carefully absorbing the clues and indicators around her, Demi had been silently trying to gauge her mentor's location and distance. Sharp bronze eyes caught the unnatural tremor of a tree's limbs up ahead, and the girl concluded to herself that that must have been Mirelle's location. Thinking quickly, the bobtail darted off the path and scaled a nearby tree. Safely in its branches, she took a moment to collect herself, calm her excited thoughts, and steady her breathing. Cautiously, she breathed through her mouth both to better detect Mir's scent and to keep from making a sound. Both eyes remained fixed on the tree she had seen move as she began making her way through the branches. Although she knew she wasn't high enough to meet her teacher, Demi continued to pick her way through the trees gingerly. She would ascend once she was closer and could more accurately discern her mentor's position. When she was only a few trees away, the younger female paused and scanned the limbs of her target carefully, grinning when she spotted the Singapura's form.

It didn't seem like she was spotted yet, so Demi moved up a little higher and began making her way through the remaining branches. Having failed to grab up any stones like Mir had, Demi realized she still had one projectile to rely on. Slowly, the bobtail slipped a paw into a pouch she had strapped to her thigh and withdrew a couple of small round objects. Poising herself between a couple of branches, the girl took aim; as they both were currently, it was blatantly clear that a surprise attack would be impossible unless it had a little assistance. In the next instant, she sent the small balls flying, both gleaming silver as they sailed through the patchy sunlight. As they hit the branches right below the older cat, a light jingle sounded before they erupted in a plume of pale pink smoke. Even as they left her hand, Demi was in motion, lunging swiftly from branch to branch to get into position. When the smoke bells burst open, she was just leaping into the tree her mentor occupied. Taking advantage of the created smokescreen, the girl sunk her claws into the bark and propelled herself upwards without hesitation. Her heart thundered in her ears as she scaled the tree and burst through the already thinning cloud, swinging a kick around to meet the Singapura. Adrenaline was flowing heavily through her veins, and though she bore her mentor no ill feelings, her face was hard and serious as she concentrated on putting every skill she had learned over the past months to good use right now. Every sense was heightened and sharp and ready to take in information; muscles held taught and body light to move suddenly if she needed to change to defense.