Gideon squints at her. "Not terrible. You moved, which is the first point: if something knocks you down, the last thing you want to do is stay still. But the second point is to get back up, so you can hit back. Try it again, but this time try to put your feet under you as you come up." She demonstrates—doing a forward-roll, as Tally did, rather than rolling backward as she had before, and tucking her feet under her so she rolls upward into a crouch. She stays in the crouch, so Tally isn't just rolling around at her feet like, apparently, a cat, though it's hard to imagine Mothwing being so undignified. She also tucks the compliment into her back pocket, to think about later.