"One Dyne is... A very good night's sleep. Ten OTC standard hours worth of mental and physical energy."

"Then, yes, I would like to mint one tenth of a Dyne."

Eva seems to concentrate... And then a thumb-sized silver sphere appears in the air by Ashilynn's head, humming a high C. It hovers unsteadily. 

Ashilynn looks up to the sphere curiously. "What do I do now?"

Eve smiles. "That was it. The humming silver sphere is a one-tenth Dyne. Don't touch it with bare skin, it'll give you a bit of a shock."

"Oh, how curious!" Rather than taking it physically, Ashilynn draws the little sphere toward her using her magic, examining it with fascination. "To touch it would redeem it again, I imagine?" Though it isn't visible outwardly, Ashilynn focuses a different sort of gaze on the object, examining its mana and magical structure, if it has any.  

"Actually, you can just direct your will at it in order to redeem it: touching it is just painful. Dyne tend to collect static electricity." 

Beneath Ashilynn's magical senses, the Dyne looks almost like pure mana. 

"Ah, yes, that makes sense...though I imagine my magic resistance would protect me from the active aer, if I handled it carefully." Ashilynn looks to Eva with a curiously analytical expression on her face. "What are its components? How does the spell work? Is there a formula you are drawing from? I did not get a good look at you as you were casting it...did you create it from the surrounding ether? Or did you use your own od?"

As she speaks, an excited smile grows on her face, and she stands briskly to her feet. "I have never seen a spell like this before, and it hardly seems as though you expended much od or mana to cast it, but you have managed to make a physical object that can grant someone the equivalent of an hour's sleep! And yet it is almost fully formed from mana, not from matter! And you have certainly implied that you can make it in far larger quantities than this, and I can only imagine that you can do so with relative ease as well, given that you operate a business upon this model...though you have not specified the limits yet of how much you can mint in one sitting...but I absolutely must see the process!"

Ashilynn claps her hands together, by this point barely able to stand still for all her excitement, and an all-consuming grin on her face. "You need to do that again. I would like to mint another tenth of a dyne, and I would like to watch you as you make it."

"I'd like to note that the energy isn't created from nowhere: that tenth of a Dyne is an hour of your sleep, and if you get me to make more than a few you're definitely going to start feeling it. But if you'd like me to make another, I can oblige." 

She does the thing again. It looks surprisingly natural: the extracted energy-property almost condenses into another tenth-Dyne of its own accord. 

"OTC has spent a very large amount of time refining the minting magic, and I honestly have no idea how it works: the OTC is complex and powerful enough to make many gods look like ants." 

"But surely some energy must be expended in the conversion process..." Ashilynn trails off as she watches the next tenth-Dyne appear, before she looks to Eva, dumbstruck. "This is...absolutely incredible. This is revolutionary!"

"There is some loss: You're actually expending about an extra minute on each tenth of a dyne. Thirty-six seconds of that is the OTC's minting fee - we take one percent to cover cost of time and maintenance on the system." 

"But you cannot mean to say that fatigue itself fuels this process. There must be some mana that is involved."

Eva shakes her head. "If mana gets involved in the process at all here, it's because that's how your world functions. This works even in worlds with no conception whatsoever of magic."

Ashilynn pauses. Her brow raises a touch. "In worlds without magic? What..." She trails off, furrowing her brow, then covers her mouth. "...I see. Then...perhaps it is silly of me to try to quantify it in terms of what I know."

"In some worlds they make distinctions between magic and physics. In some worlds, they actually do operate differently. In some worlds one or the other is absent, though it's sometimes difficult to define what's physics and what's magic. In general, OTC tends to define physics that responds to the will of individuals as 'magical.' "

"I would call magic simply another aspect of physics...at least here." Ashilynn takes a deep breath. "But I think this is beyond my knowledge to comprehend, at the moment."

She straightens up, having calmed significantly now, and peers at Eva. "You mentioned that you have a stock. Does this mean that you both sell and buy?"

"We do! Obviously we trade in any of the currencies I mentioned, but we also buy interesting things from any world - particularly things that are locally common but multiversally rare. That usually means manufactured goods, though there are exceptions."

"For the sake of my curiosity...do you buy magical energy?"

"We do, it's one of our nonstandard currencies - not all worlds accept it, because not all of them have an analogy to mana."

"I'd like to offer some of my own mana or od for sale, then. And I should like to see your stock."

"Even with everything over TL3 converted to a cloud of very hot debris, it'd still help if you could give me a general category for what you'd want."

"I am most interested in whatever stock you may have that is magical or technological in nature. I cannot say so specifically what I'd like, given I hardly know what you may have to offer...but I am certain we can find something." 

"Can you at least give me a general function you want? Weapon? Furniture? Clothing? Housepet?" 

Eva half-smiles. 

"Recreation, then."

"Alright, let's see what we have in that department... Yes, there's plenty left."

She frowns, twisting around in her seat as she looks around for a convenient surface. 

"... Would you happen to have somewhere I can set things down? It'll be more convenient if I don't have to continually appear and disappear my stock."