The ability to follow what she is doing is, uh, variable, and a couple of people fall over and are mocked mercilessly but good-naturedly by their peers - but also helped up, and the group appears to be giving each other tips on how to complete stretches one person has got and someone else hasn't quite.

Aw, cute.

She can help with her pebble, too, first demonstrating a move herself with the pebble as a guide and then sending it over to guide someone else in the same way; hopefully this'll be less startling than a sourceless telekinetic nudge.

Something they can see coming definitely is somewhat less startling - if, in some cases, only because they can deliberately evade it. It's fairly clear that some of these people are okay with being touched, some are fine if there aren't any sudden movements, and a couple really want their personal space clear at all times, and everyone seems to understand and respect this - at least in front of an adult they want to impress, anyway.

Sure, she can work with that. Are any of them still particularly struggling at this point?

One of the older lads who seems to be fine with approach-with-care is absolutely getting it wrong in a subtle way that's probably going to hurt later if he keeps going for it like that; a younger teenage girl who absolutely won't be touched is having balance issues; the determined eight year old is getting a bit frustrated trying to remember several different things at once.

Balance issues usually respond well to practice, she'll see about giving the teenage girl some exercises for it at the end. The eight-year-old can have one of the helpfully-inclined people pointed her way. The young man gets one-on-one attention from her; better to get that kind of problem straightened out right away.

He seems pretty determined that his way is better and seems to be trying to demonstrate it to Deskyl, despite it very clearly being something that's going to mess up his tendons if he keeps doing that.

She'll put in a solid effort to communicate that that's not a good technique, up to and including doing it his way once to make it clear that she's not just not getting what he's saying, but if he's going to insist on doing it his way -

- then he's not welcome to continue here, and she'll firmly send him off.

He backs off a little, then tries to continue arguing; two of the others physically grab him to try to drag him away. This results in a bit of a fight - even though he's startled, it's not deadly serious, nobody is trying to really injure each other, they're just testing each other's physical dominance.

Deskyl will hang back as long as nobody's temper seems to be getting out of hand; she doesn't want to establish getting into a fight with her as something that might happen in the normal course of things rather than a dangerous aberration.

Eventually, when he's obviously losing, the boy angrily declares something - probably along the lines of "I didn't want to study your stupid stretches anyway!" - and runs off.

Everyone else dusts themselves off where applicable and looks kind of sheepish about the whole situation; a couple of them are obviously trying to apologise to Deskyl.

She shrugs and gets back to work as if nothing in particular happened, showing that one teenager a balance exercise.

She is a little embarrassed to get personal attention, but tries very hard to get through the exercise; it's like she has something wrong with her intrinsic sense of balance and is mostly getting by on pressure cues.

After a bit of observation, she gestures for the girl to hold on for a moment, and goes off a little way to try a few variations on the exercises; when she comes back, she's got a modified version that's much easier for her.

Partway through demonstrating it, she visibly startles, suddenly falling into a guard stance with her hand on her lightsaber, looking off into the woods where the path is.

She may also notice someone who she might recognise from sometimes taking sentry shifts noticing her sudden change of demeanour and running off in the direction of Allegra's house, presumably to fetch her.

The approaching - entity - isn't approaching all that fast; a little quicker than relaxed walking pace, but at the kind of long distance lope that a fit person can keep up for a very long time.

She keeps watching; she doesn't seem to be getting more nervous but she's definitely still tense.

The teenagers mostly scatter like a flock of nervous pigeons, although a couple of the bolder ones are considering approaching her and asking if she's okay, one of them getting a notebook out.

Otherwise, there are a few wary glances but people are generally still just about their business.

After a few seconds she concludes that it's at least not an immediate problem, and gestures for the notebook so she can write 'an entity is coming - powerful, nonhuman but with a human - unclear if physical - not obviously dangerous but I don't know what they are'.

The teenager frowns at the words. think Jaycen's getting Allegra, he scrawls underneath, then after a moment's thought, she's prob. at home, could just go to her

Deskyl considers this and nods, setting off into the village at a slightly inhuman speed.

This causes some consternation, but this generally takes the form of 'people getting quickly out of the way' and 'people considering running in the direction of Allegra's house but then realising they are being outpaced in that direction'.

She does end up with a couple of people following her; they don't have their spears with them but do have an assortment of daggers which they are considering readying just in case.

Jayce, the sentry who first spotted her reaction, is in the process of waiting impatiently by the door, having just completed 'knocking loudly and yelling wake up'. He backs off and calls out, "She's just getting up," as Deskyl approaches.

She shoots Jaycen a look - talking to her doesn't work and she's pretty sure he knows it - but waits, still visibly distracted watching the whatever-it-is.

A somewhat underdressed Allegra (she has a nice brown nightshirt with gold trim on, and her staff to hand, but no armour pieces) opens the door, sees Deskyl, swears briefly and grabs a pencil and the nearest piece of paper, which appears to be a price list for various commodities.

'Powerful nonhuman entity coming,' she writes in the margin. 'Ambiguously embodied. Doesn't feel hostile yet. ETA 10-15 minutes.'