Eva's decorating for a party. It's not commemorating anything special, like a birthday, but who needs an excuse for a party? It's just a regular party, with lots of people, and of course it's going to be great because Eva is involved in the planning and organization. Sitting on the floor, she's drawing geometric shapes nearby, seemingly at random, though they seem to be forming some sort of pattern. Her phone buzzes, so she gets it out and responds to a text, then continues drawing. She finishes the circle she was working on.
"Who said anything about selling? Anyway, three names, including at least one of a fantasy author, in exchange for you making the second half of this list – from here onwards," she says, pointing at a specific entry. "Sounds good."
She doesn't know how precise she has to be, and this is kinda just repeating what's already been said, but it's better that she do this rather than he interprets 'second half of the list' as not including some entries or something. It seems approximately halfway, but she's not sure it's precisely halfway.
Things start appearing. One of the things appears directly above Nick and nearly falls on him. Nick catches it, and the demon gives a smirk. "Forgot to specify where to appear them, summoner. But I'm just having fun so I'll play nice now."
Eva raises an eyebrow. Right.
Well, at least he's not appearing them in people, such as her – admittedly that would probably stop his fun, but it would do damage.
She waits for him to finish the list.
She reads out three names – saying which one is the fantasy author – and then, provided everything is fine, thanks him for his time and dismisses him.
The demon disappears.
Nick says, "And now we can really get kick-started on heavy industry."