"I... Yeah? This isn't my place, actually, my friend's out right now getting some stuff, so. Uh, I might just have to ditch the party. My place isn't far and my mom's out right now so you can probably wait in my room, anyway, but. Uh. Yeah, just a sec."

She starts texting people on her phone. Coming down with a sudden illness? Sure. That's a fine excuse. She can use that.

He'll only just stand there patiently for about three minutes.

That's fine – Eva's good at texting.

"Okay, right. I'm ill and can't turn up to the party," she says, kinda pointlessly. "Do I need to do anything about this?" she asks, gesturing towards the shapes on the floor.

"...Not unless anyone's liable to copy it." It's pretty obvious he's trying to limit the amount of information he gives her.

"Okay, well, probably not, unless taking a photo of it somehow counts? I don't know how much people might get when it's crowded in here, but if it has the chance to do that much damage... It's safe for me to just get rid of bits of it, right?"

"Yes, rearrange it or remove a few bits and it'll be safe."

Luckily it was just bits of coloured tape and paper, because that's what all the cool kids use for decoration, so that's pretty easy to do. She gets rid of the circle and reshapes some of the other bits.

"Right. We should be ready to go, then? ... Can you hide your wings?"

"Unfortunately not, but if you give me directions I can be extremely fast, not much time for anyone to see me."

"Okay. Right." She thinks for a second, trying to come up with a good description of how to get there from a bird's-eye view, then decides just to give the directions to get there along streets and a description of her house that should make it somewhat recognizable.

"I'll be there in like 10 minutes."

"I could carry you there. That's the whole point of summoning fairies, getting them to move things."

".. Of course it is, you used telekinesis earlier. Sorry, this is all a bit... new." She runs her hand through her hair, then says, "Yeah, that'd be good."

"Up so we're specks in the sky, or streetwise and hope nobody notices the weird blur?"

"Uh. I'm fine with specks in the sky." Of course she is. Totally fine.

She realizes that she should probably grab her bag, so she fetches it, then says, "Right, I'm ready to go."

Fwoosh! They're out the door and high, high up without so much as a rush of air or a feeling of acceleration. He hovers for a few moments, pretending to look for the right house. (He's clearly showing off.)

Okaaaay. This is pretty exhilarating, and also very freaky, but kinda scary.

Jackpot. She has hit the literal jackpot, assuming she's not dreaming.

That assumes the fairy can be convinced to cooperate. He's not been too unreasonable so far, at least.

And then with another surreal zoom of motion, they're at the back door of her house with only a little plant-rustling to show for it.

Of course it assumes that. It's not, however, an unreasonable assumption.

She takes a moment to steady herself, then gets out her key and opens the door. "Right, so. You made it sound like you've never had to try to bring a world up to the modern age before. Do you have stuff saved on your... tablet thingy? Like, perhaps, scientific research papers?"

"I was planning to have you unsummon and resummon me, so I could download a library. Getting enough tools to kick-start a scientific revolution is not cheap unless you're willing to risk dealing with a, a particularly dangerous kind of daeva."

"Okay, but do you have anything on you now? I'm a little worried that you're going to disappear and then I'm not gonna be able to get you back. I mean, I have never heard of real fairies, ones like you, ever before."

"...Okay, I do have a ten year old encyclopedia from a hundred fifty years in your future. But if I give it to you maybe you just don't resummon me, and get rich and famous off it not to mention I've just lost a semi-nice computer and all my information security in one go."

"I'm not saying all of it, but if you could somehow get a couple of... I don't know! Research papers? Product designs? Something that would pay off and have benefits for sure, like something that gets water out of the atmosphere into a potable form? Or a scientific breakthrough, if there's been anything revolutionary."

"...Fine, fine, I'll set it up to only show a few things that came out relatively close to 2015 unless I unlock it again with a hideously long password. It'll take a bit of setup, though. The water thing isn't really possible, RO membranes get more efficient but there's real physical limits involved. How about... Instructions for making hydrocarbon batteries and the formulae and synthesis steps for a couple dozen medicines?"

"I think that would be extremely useful, awesome, and is approximately exactly what I was looking for, so thank you!"

She is not literally bouncing, mainly because it would be too undignified.

He starts tapping away on the computer. "I'm an unusually technopathic fairy, by the way, most don't bother. It's traditional to pay fairies with food." Hint, hint.

"Thank you," she repeats. "Is there anything in particular you like? Brownies? We have brownies and cookies, if you want something sweet."