"I mean, unless you don't want me to, but something about you tells me you'll like exploring the internet now that we have actual free time. Or electronic books."

"Possibly."

"Not to mention all the foods, you did mention fae food didn't come in as much gradation as chocolate does."

"Yeah, it seems like that would require a lot of refining we mostly don't do."

"I wonder why not. It's not like the underlying physics works really differently here, all the stuff we've made fairies could've, too."

"We don't work together as much."

"Yeah, I suppose that'd do it. Although having an industrious master over a diligent court should probably do away with a lot of the coordination problems that could hinder progress, so it's still overall mildly surprising."

"I suppose the priorities associated with having a court are not necessarily technological progress."

"Sure, but what I mean is that there is a trope in certain kinds of mortal fiction about power-hungry scientist types and it's interesting nothing like that cropped up as a court holder here."

"Maybe they have to give their vassals a lot of flexibility to get anywhere and that's too much to let them keep them?"

"Plausible. Or maybe scientist types don't actually tend to be very good managers in spite of what mortal fiction would have us believe."

"You have fiction about this?"

"Yeah, like I said, mad scientist trope. Especially superhero fiction, with the evil genius at the top of a huge evil organisation meant to do evil science."

"Evil science."

"Yep! It's like science, but evil. With nefarious experiments figuring out answers to questions no one really ever asked or trying to steal the Moon."

"...steal the moon?"

"Yeah—I dunno if it's come up yet that in the mortal world it's a huge ball of rock orbiting the earth and reflecting the light from the Sun, but for some reason mad scientists sometimes want to steal the moon. Granted, that's mostly in children's cartoons and very old superhero comics, but. It's a thing."

"Why do they want it? ...Who owns it?"

"No one owns it, it's just—there. It's responsible for the tides, though, and maybe other things though I wouldn't know what. Not to mention that if it were stolen and not just displaced it'd destroy the Earth. As for why, no idea, I haven't actually read the kind of fiction in question, I presume it's usually to be evil. Or maybe they threaten it and want to be paid not to do it."

"I'm not sure I'd call it stealing if no one owns it. They want to harvest the moon."

She sporfles.

"What?"

"That was an unintentional pun," she giggles. "There's an old video game called 'harvest moon' about farming. And it has nothing to do with harvesting the moon, but it's just—the image is great, and the pun, and I dunno."

"Okay."

"More elaborate fiction involving mad or evil scientists tends to have genuinely interesting questions being answered through unethical means. One that particularly bothers me is how seeking immortality is almost invariably a bad thing in fiction."