Eva pulls the spearpoint free and tosses it aside, a wand of Cure Serious Wounds appearing in her free hand to seal the wound and make sure it doesn't fester. 

She offers Changeling a hand up. "Sloppy of me," she comments. "Think you could've got me, I got cocky."

Changeling laughs. She takes the hand up, careful with the sharp points.  "Well now all my surprises are spent and you're still an obvious expert, so I bet you'd win a rematch easy. That was fun, though! That stuff I tagged your arm with should wear off in a couple hours, if you don't just magic it away."

She calls out towards Hannah. "Enjoy the show?"

Hannah claps enthusiatically. "Nice fight! I agree, Eva was sloppy, she forgot those talons of yours. That throw would have been a sucker shot against most people, but not you. And I'm very entertained. It's rare to see Eva even halfway serious, and she was definitely into it."

Eva runs a hand through her hair. "Yes, well. Don't you two have a show to get to?"

Hannah checks her watch. "We've got another hour, but maybe better to chat than spar. I'll get your arm for you." She pulls a wand of Neutralize Poison and zaps Eva.

"I was totally trying to bait a mistake with that leap, it looks like I can't move but I still can and people fall for it. Still almost got me. Oof..."

She's breathing hard, skin not just warm but hot. She takes deep breaths. "Cooldown time. Yay. I was only in it for a few minutes, at least... What was that about a magic ring...?"

Eva flashes a ring out of the air. "Ring of Sustenance. Handles food, water and most of sleep. Should help."

She passes it over.

"Shiny. Sounds expensive, am I returning it?"

On goes the ring. The claws are already softening, so it mostly fits.

"Consider it a present, it's rare that I meet someone this interesting nowadays."

"Does that make you two engaged?"

"No."

She snickers. "Funny how shiny rocks are still the gold standard for classical romance even these days. This is a nice pad, by the way."

"We're all just magpies at heart. And thank you, it's all custom. Some bits are Hannah's work, actually; she's faster than me on getting the foundations laid."

"I should do more architecture and construction type stuff, last time I took a serious look at it was... Forty years ago? And that was mostly a pivot from this hyper-realistic base-building combat sim I was into for a while. I should practice fighting more too. Hell, I should do more of everything. Maybe I should fork since you guys can do it safely."

"- How old are you, incidentally? I'm a few thousand but a lot of that is parallel - I'm more like five hundred linearly. And forking is possible but expensive, I have a goddess on hand to help me with that. We'd do it for a family friend but you'd owe us one." 

"One sixty four. I'm part of the first generation that got 'stacked and count myself really lucky for it. I don't want expensive favors. I figure I can probably do custom bodywork for people, there'd be demand for that right? I don't like working much but that was when there weren't really things I both wanted to buy and couldn't afford."

"Glad to hear you're past your first centennial, that one's a bitch for humans. Not wanting expensive favours is fine; custom bodywork would probably work. Alas, things still run on money here. Is that different where you come from?"

"Nah, we got money. We also got basic income, most places, or just real good social services. I used to do streaming stuff, gotta love that ad revenue. That and custom bodywork, and," smirk, "Odd jobs."

"Ah, 'odd jobs.' Always my favorite profession. Glad to hear things are alright for most people. Say, has Hannah mentioned SenseFest?"

"I figured she'd prefer something a bit more... normal. SenseFest is cool and all but it kind of has the dire cocoa problem."

"Yeah, nothing too crazy... At first. Devil band is about the right level of crazy. And window shopping, and food. Is dire cocoa, like, brain-meltingly tasty? There's nasty stuff like that back home. Also, I think I found my next research project- Figuring out what this ring is actually doing. Chemically, like. I'm watching my vitals change and it doesn't make any sense and it's kind of amazing?"

"Nice, you get readouts?" The envy in Eva's voice is palpable. "That's super high end out here, all the biometrics is, like, extra senses which take training to give anything like a precise result. Or bulky annoying monitors. I would pay a lot for that, not to disparage the extra senses but there's only so much training I can transfer if I don't just want a straight-up duplicate of myself." 

She catches herself. "And yeah, Dire Cocoa is brain-meltingly good, we have precision memory editing so it can be safe to eat it and then delete it but sometimes people aren't careful about it. There's a lot of drug use at SenseFest in the designated areas; which, well, tried it didn't like it. Feels cheaty. And technological analysis of magical artifacts is always great; sometimes it just tells us new things about magic and sometimes it renders magic a technology. The line is blurry."

"I get readouts and also a sort of intuitive understanding of things! My stack- Well, long story, but lots of stuff is designed to manage itself but lots of other stuff talks directly to my cortical stack. Little bundles of, like, sensitive-to-whatever cells that send signals down a nerve that the stack catches. It's sort of like extra senses in the sense that it's using the same surfaces on the cortical stack that bonus senses do, but I also get readouts. Like, I'm about done cooling down - my core temperature shot up during the fight - and for temperature management I have- Well, everything's really twisty and interconnected because biology is wet and messy, right, but I could set a new target core temperature or specifically cool down my left arm or go in and manually start changing which blood vessels ought to constrict. You can-" 

Pause.

"Hah! I'm nerding out. Like I thought, dragon form's alright for nerding, but maybe I should shut up, hm?"

"No, go on, this is fascinating -"

"We have a show to get to, Eva."