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."

Whoosh!

"It did! Is this a cause for celebration, do you think, or should we wait until the response is published?"

"I think it's good enough for some celebration, he'd hardly spend all that effort getting video of us and the fuelsynth and then not publish it."

"So. Champagne? Obviously I'd happen to get some non-alcoholic champagne from a bottle that looks surprisingly similar, because laws and things."

Obviously she's never drunk a drop of alcohol before.

"...Champagne? Oh, right, traditional for celebrations. Hey, why not. I might even be able to stop it from fizzing everywhere."

"Something wrong with champagne?" she asks innocently, going to fetch a bottle. They do have a well-stocked house, how nice.

"It's just not really a thing anymore in 2180, or not a thing in fairyland, I guess. But: New experiences can be fun, let's have some champagne."

"Oh, huh."

She gets out two champagne flutes, places them down on the side, and then pops open the bottle.

The bottle fizzes up predictably.

Nick looks focussed as the liquid flies around, but he does collect most of it into a little sphere of floating, bubbling champagne. "Huh, even trickier than normal since it's liquid and gas." The floating bubble of champagne goes in one of the flutes.

She tops it up and then fills the other glass.

"To innovation? To... the future? Everything sounds so corny."

"It's not corny. It's classic. To technology!" Clink.

Clink. "To technology!" And then she takes a sip.

And so does Nick. "And to improving the world via capitalism."

"That too."

Despite her pining for money, she does actually want to make the world a better place. Altruism is just more effective if you have something to give away, and have a nice system to give it away through.

Sip, sip. "I kind of want to pull a malaria-eradication, but that would, again, require dealing with more and more dangerous daeva."

Sip. "I'm not totally averse to it, especially provided they're kept contained somehow, it's just... You're all frighteningly powerful."