The occasional flirting is reciprocated, but Eva also doesn't try to escalate at this stage.

Eventually, they have a few responses! Unfortunately, two are along the lines of 'don't waste our time with this', and the other one is tentatively interested but isn't actually very high-profile, so it might be better to wait to see if they get any better options. Sigh. She keeps looking around for other places that seem like they might be more open to innovation, and tries to persuade the other groups that no, she's not lying.

Nick thinks they should go ahead and show off to the low-profile company, and just yammer something about 'investigating our options' to stall them and wait for higher profile clients.

Unless they can get a major tech-based social media person interested? He recalls that kind of thing was just starting to really take off in the 2010s. There has to be one or two sciencey blogs or video shows that might accept a shiny new toy. Not that he doubts she's trying, but it's a bit hard to believe nobody is interested.

It is kinda hard to believe, or at least annoying to believe, but they are – basically – nobodies saying that they have a revolutionary product. It's somewhat farfetched.

She had been looking for investors as opposed to just publicity, and therefore didn't focus on the blog-and-videosphere as much as she should have. Turns out there are people who are interested in trying it out and getting information on it out there! In the future, she shall strive to do better. Now, when would they like to meet with some of these people? Literally as soon as possible? She thinks it's probably that, but she'll check with Nick just in case.

'Literally as soon as possible' is correct. Nick is faster than an airplane.

Literally as soon as possible is the option she picks! Unfortunately, they can't do 'immediately', but how does tomorrow morning sound?

Tomorrow morning will have to do, then. He spends the night hopped up on coffee making tweaks to the thing.

She spends the night sleeping, as humans do, but she's up bright and early the next day!

Where is this internet person? Are they local-ish, or will Nick have to fly below a thousand feet halfway across the country to avoid detection by air force radar technicians?

They're not local local, but they're in the same state. Here's an address and directions from a nearby landmark.

Whoosh?

Whoosh! He lets a small part of the wind hit them, this time, it's more fun that way.

His wings are hidden when they navigate to the internet person's house.

Whoosh!

And eventually they arrive. Hello, internet person. Watch Eva be charmingly interesting at you.

Internet person answers the door and invites them in. He serves coffee and lets Eva apply charm and small talk for a while, but soon asks to see the devices.

Eva's happy to show them off! She repeats the bits of Nick's explanation that she understood fully and feels are relevant. Do you have anything to add, Nick? Would you maybe like to demonstrate them?

The internet person cuts her explanation off. "Actually, let me start recording now?" A microphone and a little camera is deployed. "There we go."

Nick only has a couple things to add or clarify. He talks about how they're going to scale it up, and the problem of needing rare materials as catalysts.

Internet person catches on that Nick is the mastermind behind the device, but then Eva is more photogenic and also has better enthusiasm in her voice so she keeps the spotlight.

Eva can definitely be very photogenic and personable when she tries, but she also caught a lot of the explanation that Nick gave her, so she shouldn't be missing anything too important. She takes the additions and clarifications in stride, and overall it seems to go well!

At one point internet person asks how exactly they came up with the idea, and whether there might be more like it. Nick looks at Eva in a what-should-I-say sort of way.

Eva gets through it by – in essence – pointing at the brains of the operation and saying that it's so amazing what the education system can produce when people actually apply themselves. They definitely think there will be more ideas like it.

...Alright, internet person can accept that answer, and the question-dodge implied in it.

The last step will be to test the things and show them in action. Can they please follow him to such and such a university lab with plenty of space and also tools if they need to make adjustments? (Nick snorts a bit and mutters 'not likely')

That's fine! Eva follows, continuing the conversation.

Ugh. Slow travel. It's so... inefficient. It's bad that she's already kinda used to the speed of fairy telekinesis, but it's just so convenient.

Soon enough they're in a Fancy Science Building. Nick turns the machine in and turns it on, it makes a loud noise and produces gasoline. Internet Person takes some off in a teaspoon and makes a big show of measuring how well it burns and applying other science instruments to it, like a spectrometer. He seems very, very impressed, and Nick is just smug now.

The tests for the battery are less flashy and take longer, do they mind if he keeps it for three to five days?

Eva looks to Nick, gauging his reaction to it, and decides that yes, it's fine. They want people to know that the products function, and that they function well, so having the Internet Person perform an array of tests on the batteries and then publish the results should help.

Internet person is very excited about these devices! He's going to release a detailed report on the things on his website and give them a special extra video from his usual schedule. It should be about a week until that happens.

Well, this seems like it's been a success.

Eva, ever personable, thanks the Internet Person for his time and now they can presumably leave.

Yep.

Nick flash-steps them back to Eva's house. "So that went well."