"Certainly! I should have a spare crystal here somewhere..."

She clunks the chunk of quartz down onto the counter.

Inavet considers if she should trust this or not - she's inclined to, and ten seconds isn't a ton. If it happened to get out to the multiverse - again, not the end of the world. She can definitely sell some amazing extra-sense sensations. Just a 'this is what life is normally like for me' is not her big seller.

She steps over to the chunk of quartz. "What do I need to do?"

"It's set to record by default: all you need to do is hold it for a few seconds, then set it down."

"All right. Just sensations, not thoughts, too?"

"Just sensations."

Nod!

She picks up the chunk of quartz. Going all out for the best set of sensations possible isn't the point of the exercise, but she doesn't want to make this just 'Inavet stands stock still for ten seconds.' To keep it interesting, she hums a faint tune of a popular song, and echoes a bit of the instrumental part around her to go along with it. If she sat down and focused, she might be able to pull off copying the song completely, but this is a nice demonstration and a sort-of-present for a not-quite-friend.

And then ten seconds are up and she offers the quartz to Eva.

Eva manages to keep herself from snatching the crystal out of Inavet's hands, but it's a close thing.

... oh. Oh wow.

"... You said you could give copies of this magic to other people?"

"Yes, I can. Though - the senses they get won't work quite like mine, some of them might be more or less attuned to certain things in comparison. And I'm highly nervous about knowledge of how to get this magic being used to give horrible people magic, because you can actually do some pretty horrible things with it."

"... Do you trust me enough to let me massively overpay for this? Because I will massively overpay for this."

"Getting you the magic unfortunately means you will know how to get other people the magic, though maybe not competently, and if you mess it up you magically cripple the person forever. If it were just getting you the magic -" she hesitates, then says, "... Yes, I trust you enough to let you massively overpay for it."

"... Believe me, the absolute last thing I would ever want to do is cripple someone else's senses."

"I believe you. I just - take it all very seriously."

Eve nods. "And I understand that completely, if this kind of magic can accidentally cripple people's senses."

Nod.

Not entirely why she wants to keep it from spreading all over the multiverse, but - yes. That's a good reason.

"I can do it properly, I've had several hundred years of practice," she promises. "But - is there a contract of some kind I can have you sign that'll stop you from infusing other people with the magic...?"

"Oh, yes, OTC does that all the time. Would you like to sign in blood, or is that a bit archaic for you?"

Blink. "I don't really have a preference, is blood easier?"

"No, we just offer that service for our more traditional clients. Ink's just as good for the contract magic."

She pulls out a piece of parchment.

"This is one of our standard NDAs - it should be appropriate for this. Read it over and see if the terms are agreeable to you."

Nod! She reads over it.

Anything weird?

It is really absurdly thorough about the list of methods by which the information cannot be communicated.

Other than that, it appears to be a fairly reasonable contract.

This is pretty agreeable to her, then! She is impressed with the list of methods by which information cannot be communicated. Good contract.

"This works for me, but before I sign it I should check to make sure I actually can get you magic. May I have your hand?"

"Well, if you insist..."

... Is she blushing? She is definitely blushing.

Inavet doesn't actually find this blush worthy, she has had to awkwardly hold hands for magic reasons for a good amount of people. But she does find it kind of cute that Eva blushes at this.

She closes her eyes and pays attention to how Eva feels to her magic.

"... Standard ritual," she pronounces. "So I don't need to figure out how to account for things and it should be relatively simple to do. Right then, anything specific to signing this, or is it literally just signing it?"

"It's literally just signing it, the contract does all the magic."

Eva seems to be having some trouble meeting Inavet's gaze now.

... That's terribly adorable. Inavet's not sure what to do with it, but it's adorable.

"All right then." She picks up a pen and signs contract.

Eva grins, and whisks the contract away into one of her many desk drawers.

"Okay! So, um, now what do I do?"