"It was, but fortunately, what I'm teaching you today is much, much smaller in scale. No extra help needed to carry this off."

The chicken is allowed to return to the earth, and Fever's now free hands go to her hips. She's not refusing further questions, but she realizes that if she goes too far down this road, they're going to lose track of her original reason for showing up in the first place.

"In fact, I think you'll take to it quite handily."

Get it. Since it's an extra hand.