[ She opts not to deeply consider the implications intrinsic in Kylo's awareness of precisely how to jimmy the table into full functionality, the familiarity he demonstrates with this particular dejarik table's functionality. It would mean reflecting on the father that he killed, and she does not want to think of it when she is trying to save the son's by pulling him out from behind the nightmarish castle walls he has built around himself with his own choices. Rey is not sturdy enough in her current state to fact that train of thought, so she evades it entirely.

In doing so, she runs straight into the necessary acknowledgment that a compliment then lies in his words, for if she won't pay mind to his actions and analyzing them, she must at least answer those. It startles her a little, for although she had to acknowledge there was some praise implicit in offering to teach her in the first place, in exploring this tenuous link between them, in accepting her help to sever his bond with Snoke, she had certainly never expected him to state it outright. Particularly when he'd levied half-hearted, shell-shocked criticism at her after the flight pattern she'd followed through the field of asteroids near Roche. ]

And a good pilot knows how to repair it once they drop out of hyperspace, no matter how it shakes apart. We'll see it good as ... well, good as it was before we took off at least. [ She lays her palms on the table and, in doing so, seems to set the subject of the Falcon's state aside—to their mutual benefit. ] So, how does it work?